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LOT 1666
Stone Age Long Trapezoidal Steep-Sided Flint Scraper
MESOLITHIC-EARLY NEOLITHIC PERIOD, CIRCA 9000-5000 B.P.
2 in. (33.2 grams, 51 mm).
Knapped in mottled grey flint with old collector's number to verso: '106' [No Reserve]
Provenance
Found Thames Valley in the 19th century.
From an antiquarian Palaeolithic study collection, Shropshire, UK.
This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D'Amato.
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