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LOT 1494
Stone Age Knapped Scraper Collection
NEOLITHIC PERIOD, 6TH-4TH MILLENNIUM B.P.
1 3/4 - 2 1/8 in. (72 grams total, 45-55 mm).
Group of knapped scrapers, some with inked accession number. [4, No Reserve]
ProvenanceFound Department Indre et Loire, Epargne, Grand Pressigny, South West France.
Collected in the 1930s.
Ex Cambridgeshire, UK, collector.
From the property of a late Lincolnshire, UK, gentleman.
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