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LOT 1515
Stone Age Partly Polished Axehead
NEOLITHIC PERIOD, CIRCA 4TH-3RD MILLENNIUM B.C.
3 3/4 in. (270 grams, 94 mm).
With broad curved edge and flat rear striking face; shank smoothed but unfinished. [No Reserve]
Provenance
Possibly Irish.
Acquired in Oxford, UK.
From the private collection of Kenneth Machin (1936-2020), Buckinghamshire, UK; with collection no.N170; his collection of antiquities and natural history was formed since 1948; thence by descent.
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