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LOT 1541
Stone Age Collection of Excavation and Field-Walking Finds From Clacton
PALAEOLITHIC-NEOLITHIC PERIOD, CIRCA 200,000-4,000 B.P.
3/4 - 6 1/8 in. (3.36 kg total, 1.9-15.5 cm).
Including various worked tools with cutting edges, debitage and a polished smoothing stone; most with a collector's numeric label. [66, No Reserve]
Provenance
Found West Clacton, Essex.
Collected in the 1970s when the finder was a building inspector with Clacton & District Council.
Property of a Little Oakley gentleman, Harwich, UK.
This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D'Amato.
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LOT 1541
Stone Age Collection of Excavation and Field-Walking Finds From Clacton
Sold for (Inc. bp): £52
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