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LOT 1559
Stone Age Pont-l'Abbé Polished Axehead
NEOLITHIC PERIOD, CIRCA 4TH-3RD MILLENNIUM B.C.
2 5/8 in. (79 grams, 66 mm).
Small triangular axehead with bifacial blade, narrow square butt. [No Reserve]
Provenance
Found Pont-l'Abbé Finistère, Brittany, France.
From the private collection of Kenneth Machin (1936-2020), Buckinghamshire, UK; with collection no.N205; his collection of antiquities and natural history was formed since 1948; thence by descent.
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