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LOT 1678
Stone Age Flint Blade Core
MESOLITHIC PERIOD, 14,000-8,000 B.P.
2 1/2 in. (66.1 grams, 62 mm).
With facetting where blade-flakes have been removed; inked legend 'M14-137'. [No Reserve]
Provenance
Found Lodge Hill North Side, Waddesdon Buckinghamshire, UK.
From the private collection of Kenneth Machin (1936-2020), Buckinghamshire, UK; with collection no.M14; his collection of antiquities and natural history was formed since 1948; thence by descent.
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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