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LOT 0342
Stone Age Danish Handled Flint Dagger
NEOLITHIC PERIOD, 3RD MILLENNIUM B.C.
5 3/4 in. (14 in.) (68 grams, 14.7 cm (325 grams total, 35.6 cm including stand)).
In mottled grey flint, bifacially flaked with integral handle and lentoid-section blade; mounted on an old felted display stand.
Provenance
with Sotheby's, Bournemouth, UK, no.255.
Private collection, Europe.
Literature
See MacGregor, A. (ed.), Antiquities from Europe and the Near East in the Collection of Lord McAlpine of West Green, Oxford, 1987, item 4.197, for type.
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