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LOT 1426
Stone Age Knapped Flint Hand Axe
NEOLITHIC PERIOD, CIRCA 7TH-5TH MILLENNIUM B.C.
5 3/4 in. (266 grams, 14.5 cm).
Lentoid in section and ovoid in plan with some chipping to the rounded butt. [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. Madsen, A.P., Antiquités Préhistoriques du Danemark, Copenhagen, 1872, pl.26, 1.
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