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LOT 1511
Stone Age Hammer Stone
NEOLITHIC PERIOD, 4TH-3RD MILLENNIUM B.C.
4 3/4 in. (643 grams, 11.9 cm).
Trapezoidal in section with slightly domed pounding face. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFrom 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.
Cf. MacGregor, A., (ed.) Antiquities from Europe and the Near East in the Collection of Lord MacAlpine of West Green, Oxford, 1987,
item 6.23.
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