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LOT 1587
Stone Age 'Salisbury' Flint Axehead
LOWER PALAEOLITHIC PERIOD, CIRCA 480,000-250,000 B.P.
3 in. (115 grams, 78 mm).
Irregular worked flint with some cortex remaining, old inked legend 'SALISBURY' to the edge. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFound fieldwalking near Salisbury, Wiltshire, UK, by Mr P.M.
From the collection of a South West London, UK, specialist Stone Age collector.
Cf. MacGregor, A. (ed.), Antiquities from Europe and the Near East in the Collection of Lord McAlpine of West Green, Oxford, 1987, item 1.27, for type.
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