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LOT 1460
Stone Age 'Plazac' Knapped Handaxe
LOWER PALAEOLITHIC PERIOD, 450,000-250,000 YEARS B.P.
5 3/8 in. (492 grams, 13.8 cm).
Cordate in plan with broad pointed butt. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFound Plazac, Dordogne Region, France.
From an old private collection formed in the 1950s.
From the collection of a Norfolk, UK, lady collector.
Cf. MacGregor, A. (ed.), Antiquities from Europe and the Near East in the Collection of Lord MacAlpine of West Green, Oxford, 1987,
item 1.8, for type.
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