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LOT 1463
Stone Age Knapped Flint Axehead
MESOLITHIC PERIOD, CIRCA 15TH-10TH MILLENNIUM B.C.
6 in. (208 grams, 15 cm).
Roughly rectangular core axe with rounded edge and small patch of cortex to one face. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFrom a very old collection based on the cabinet patination.
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.
Cf. MacGregor, A. (ed.), Antiquities from Europe and the Near East in the Collection of Lord MacAlpine of West Green, Oxford, 1987, item 3.2.
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