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LOT 1617
Stone Age Knapped Flint Axehead
PALAEOLITHIC PERIOD, CIRCA 200,000 B.C.
6 in. (529 grams, 15.1 cm).
With regular profile, lentoid in section, thick rounded butt and broad point; cortex to one 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 1.6, for type.
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