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LOT 1507
Stone Age Knapped Flint Tool Group
MESOLITHIC TO NEOLITHIC PERIOD, CIRCA 8TH-2ND MILLENNIUM B.C.
4 1/4 - 7 in. (668 grams, 10.8 - 18 cm).
Group of gouges and handaxes including a 'livre de beurre' core. [4, 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 5.33.
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