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LOT 1467
Stone Age 'Salisbury' Knapped Flint Handaxe
LOWER PALAEOLITHIC PERIOD, 480,000-250,000 B.C.
5 1/2 in. (272 grams, 14 cm).
Ovate in form with thick butt, lentoid in section, patinated white. [No Reserve]
Provenance
Found whilst field walking near Salisbury, Wiltshire, UK.
Ex British private collection.
From the collection of a South West London, UK, specialist Stone Age collector.
Literature
Cf. MacGregor, A. (ed.), Antiquities from Europe and the Near East in the Collection of Lord MacAlpine of West Green, Oxford, 1987,
item 1.14, for type.
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