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LOT 1553
Stone Age Long Flint Knife
NEOLITHIC PERIOD, CIRCA 6000-4500 B.P.
4 in. (21 grams, 99 mm).
Knapped from high quality flint; with old inked collector's label 'Thetford / Women / Sep.1864'. [No Reserve]
Provenance
Found Thetford, Norfolk, England, in 1864.
From the collection of G.Asquith, a local Norfolk amateur archaeologist.
Acquired on the UK art market.
From the private collection of an East Anglian, UK, collector.
Footnotes
Remarkably, the blade is still very sharp and appears to have been made to be hafted and used as a knife.
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