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LOT 1627
Stone Age 'Grimes Graves' Flint Tool Group
NEOLITHIC PERIOD, 6TH-4TH MILLENNIUM B.P.
3 - 6 1/4 in. (444 grams total, 7.8-15.8 cm).
Comprising: ovate scraper with broad butt; flint core with evidence of knapping where knives and scrapers have been removed. [2, No Reserve]
Provenance
Believed from Grimes Graves, UK.
From the private collection of Kenneth Machin (1936-2020), Buckinghamshire, UK; 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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