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LOT 1508
Stone Age Knapped Flint Pick
MESOLITHIC PERIOD, CIRCA 12TH-7TH MILLENNIUM B.C.
6 inches. (248 grams, 15cm).
Narrow flaked pick with narrow tapering point and square-section body; with an old handwritten label to one face: 'LAND BOUW / 366 ) WERTUIG' / 'PIC'5 NST'. [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 3.1., for type.
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