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LOT 1499
Stone Age Flint Retouched Blade
NEOLITHIC PERIOD, 8TH-2ND MILLENNIUM B.C.
7 1/8 in. (178 grams, 18.1 cm).
Slender two-edged scraper blade. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFrom a Cambridgeshire, UK, collection formed mostly before 2000.
From the collection of a South West London, UK, specialist Stone Age collector.
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Neolithic Period, circa 4th-3rd millennium B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £117
Finely polished, lentoid in section with broad cutting edge; some chipping to edge, butt absent. 543 grams, 17 cm
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.
