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LOT 1527
Stone Age Pierced Boat-Shaped Axehead
NEOLITHIC PERIOD, 4TH-3RD MILLENNIUM B.C.
5 in. (389 grams, 12.8 cm).
With rounded butt and rectangular section, curved cutting edge. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFrom 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.
Cf. MacGregor, A. (ed.), Antiquities from Europe and the Near East in the Collection of Lord MacAlpine of West Green, Oxford, 1987, item 4.175, for type.
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