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LOT 0305
Stone Age Danish Thick-Butted Flint Chisel
NEOLITHIC PERIOD, CIRCA 2500 B.C.
6 1/2 in. (179 grams, 16.5 cm).
Thick bodied polished chisel with slightly convex cutting edge tapering out with knapped squared parallel sides to squared butt.
ProvenanceEx Jason Osborn, USA.
Ex Merriam collection, USA.
From the collection of a South West London, UK, collector.
See Madsen, A. P., Antiquités Préhistoriques du Danemark, Copenhagen, 1872, pl.29, for similar examples.
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