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LOT 1513

Stone Age Pecked Hammer Stone

NEOLITHIC PERIOD, CIRCA 6TH-4TH MILLENNIUM B.C.

2 3/4 in. (252 Grams, 7 cm).

Spherical with traces of pecked manufacture technique and old inked inscription: '874'. [No Reserve]

Provenance

From a collection acquired on the UK art market from various auction houses and collections mostly before 2000.
From an important Cambridgeshire estate; thence by descent.

Literature

Cf. MacGregor, A., (ed.) Antiquities from Europe and the Near East in the Collection of Lord MacAlpine of West Green, Oxford, 1987, item 6.23, for a more developed example of the type.

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LOT 1513

Stone Age Pecked Hammer Stone

Sold for (Inc. bp): £26

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