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LOT 1132
Stone Age English and French Arrowhead Collection
NEOLITHIC PERIOD, 6TH-4TH MILLENNIUM B.C.
1 - 1 7/8 in. (34 grams total, 25-47 mm).
The group comprising: a leaf-shaped arrowhead with an old ticket 'Neolithic flint arrowhead 2800-1900 B.C.'; a tanged arrowhead' a leaf-shaped arrowhead in pink stone; a flake in grey flint with an old inked collection number 'RN219' to one side; a small leaf-shaped arrowhead with an old handwritten ticket 'from digging trenches in France 1917'. [5, No Reserve]
Provenance
Property of a UK gentleman, acquired in the 1970s.
Property of an East Sussex, UK, gentleman.
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