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LOT 1517
Stone Age Shale Ovate Axehead
NEOLITHIC-EARLY BRONZE AGE, CIRCA 6000-4500 B.P.
6 1/2 in. (769 grams, 16.5 cm).
Lentoid in section and ovate in plan, with rounded butt. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFrom the private collection of Kenneth Machin (1936-2020), Buckinghamshire, UK; with collection no.IA27; his collection of antiquities and natural history was formed since 1948; thence by descent.
LiteratureCf. MacGregor, A. (ed.), Antiquities from Europe and the Near East in the Collection of Lord MacAlpine of West Green, Oxford, 1987, item 1.18, for general type.
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