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LOT 1495
Stone Age Knapped 'Norfolk' Grey Flint Axehead
NEOLITHIC PERIOD, CIRCA 4000-3000 B.C.
6 1/8 in. (288 grams, 15.5 cm).
Lozengiform in section with broad cutting edge, flat rounded butt. [No Reserve]
Provenance
Found Norfolk, UK, in 1996.
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 4.1, for type.
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