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LOT 1590
Stone Age Knapped Ovate Grey Flint Handaxe
NEOLITHIC PERIOD, CIRCA 6TH-4TH MILLENNIUM B.C.
2 5/8 in. (73 grams, 67 mm).
Ovate in plan and lentoid in section. [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. MacGregor, A. (ed.), Antiquities from Europe and the Near East in the Collection of Lord MacAlpine of West Green, Oxford, 1987, item 1.18, for type.
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