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LOT 1486
Stone Age Knapped Grey Flint Pick
MESOLITHIC PERIOD, CIRCA 5000 B.C.
7 in. (375 grams, 18 cm).
Triangular in section with straight cutting edge, pointed butt. [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. similar tool in 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.
FootnotesThese objects were produced by the hunting and gathering groups living in Europe during the early phases of the present interglacial period. The piece seems to be a core axe of Thames pick type, with pointed butt and rounded cutting edge. Core tools, now hafted, were used for woodworking in an environment now increasingly forested.
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