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LOT 1768
Stone Age Pecked and Polished Hammerstone
NEOLITHIC PERIOD, 6TH-4TH MILLENNIUM B.P.
2 5/8 in. (273 grams, 68 mm).
Oblate in profile with inked legends 'N12', '444'. [No Reserve]
Provenance
Found Fen Edge area, Feltwell, Norfolk, UK.
Acquired from M. Younge, UK, 1973.
From the private collection of Kenneth Machin (1936-2020), Buckinghamshire, UK; with collection no.N12; his collection of antiquities and natural history was formed since 1948; thence by descent.
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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