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LOT 1507
Stone Age Flint Tool Group
MESOLITHIC-NEOLITHIC PERIOD, CIRCA 8TH-3RD MILLENNIUM B.C.
1 3/4 - 3 1/2 in. (403 grams total, 46-88 mm).
Comprising: a Grimes Graves, Norfolk, flint blade core; a black flint Mesolithic scraper found on the foreshore of River Orwell. near Orwell Bridge, Ipswich, Suffolk; a scraper from Yorkshire; a worked flint 'net weight'(?) from Holderness Coast, East Riding of Yorkshire; some with old inked notation. [4, No Reserve]
Provenance
Found Norfolk, Suffolk and Yorkshire, UK.
Ex old British collection.
From a Leicestershire, UK, collection.
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