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LOT 1599
Stone Age Montreuil-Bellay Bifacial Neanderthal Axehead
PALAEOLITHIC PERIOD, CIRCA 60,000-40,000 YEARS B.P.
2 1/2 in. (66 grams, 66 mm).
Sub-triangular in plan and biconvex in section with rounded butt. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFound Montreuil-Bellay, Anjou, France.
Acquired from a Buckingham, UK, collection.
From the private collection of Kenneth Machin (1936-2020), Buckinghamshire, UK; with collection no.N64; his collection of antiquities and natural history was formed since 1948; thence by descent.
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