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LOT 1571
Stone Age Flint Knife on Collector's Board
MESOLITHIC-EARLY NEOLITHIC PERIOD, CIRCA 9000-5000 B.P.
2 3/4 in. (12.7 grams, 69 mm).
A hard hammer struck knife blade, mounted on an old card with collector's inscription: 'FLINT KNIFE / THAMES VALLEY GRAVELS'. [No Reserve]
Provenance
Found Thames Valley in the 19th century.
From an antiquarian Palaeolithic study collection, Shropshire, UK.
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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