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LOT 1500
Stone Age Knapped Flint Axehead
NEOLITHIC PERIOD, CIRCA 4TH-2ND MILLENNIUM B.C.
6 3/4 in. (376 grams, 17.3 cm).
Tongue-shaped in profile and lentoid in section with straight edge and broad pointed butt. [No Reserve]
Provenance
Found Tilemsi, Mali, Africa.
From the private collection of Kenneth Machin (1936-2020), Buckinghamshire, UK; with collection no.N192; his collection of antiquities and natural history was formed since 1948; thence by descent.
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