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LOT 1136
Stone Age Flint Tranchet Axe
MESOLITHIC PERIOD, CIRCA 7,500 B.C.
3 1/2 in. (72 grams, 90 mm).
Knapped flint axehead; with old inked collection number 'P.S.P227.' to verso. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFound Woolstone, Oxfordshire, UK, in 1938.
Property of a Stowmarket, UK, gentleman.
Accompanied by an old identification card.
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