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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]

Provenance

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.

Literature

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.

CONDITION
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LOT 1617

Stone Age Knapped Flint Axehead

Sold for (Inc. bp): £78

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