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LOT 1474
Stone Age Danish Knapped Stone Axehead
NEOLITHIC PERIOD, CIRCA 5TH-3RD MILLENNIUM B.C.
4 1/4 in. (245 grams, 10.7 cm).
Plano-convex in section with old collector's labels: to verso '392/MORS' and 'DENEMARKEN' to recto. [No Reserve]
Provenance
Found Denmark.
From a collection acquired on the UK art market from various auction houses and collections mostly before 2000.
From an important Cambridgeshire estate; thence by descent.
Literature
Cf. MacGregor, A. (ed.), Antiquities from Europe and the Near East in the Collection of Lord MacAlpine of West Green, Oxford, 1987, item 4.89, for type.
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