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LOT 1518
Stone Age 'River Yare' Flint Cleaver-Axehead
LOWER PALAEOLITHIC PERIOD, CIRCA 500,000-240,000 B.P.
6 in. (1.11 kg, 15.2 cm).
Substantial cleaver with one worked edge; old collector's label 'From the River = Sandown, IOW / River Yare / Alveston - to Sandown'. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFound by the River Yare, between Alvestone and Sandown, Isle of Wight, UK.
Ex Victor Brox collection, UK, formed during the 1980s-1990s.
From the collection of a South West London, UK, specialist Stone Age collector.
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