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LOT 1574
Stone Age Knapped Flint Axehead
PALAEOLITHIC PERIOD, CIRCA 200,000 B.C.
5 3/8 in. (144 grams, 13.7 cm).
With tapering butt and curved cutting edge, plano-convex in section. [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 3.3, for type.
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