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LOT 0329
Sold for (Inc. bp): £416
STONE AGE 'SOMME' GREY SPECKLED WHITE KNAPPED FLINT AXEHEAD
NEOLITHIC PERIOD, CIRCA 4TH-3RD MILLENNIUM B.C.
5 in. (147 grams, 12.7 cm).
NEOLITHIC PERIOD, CIRCA 4TH-3RD MILLENNIUM B.C.
5 in. (147 grams, 12.7 cm).
Narrow body with broad butt; old collector's label to one side 'Hache Taillée / en silex patine blanche / L.13cm - Neolithique / Somme. 8000 à 3000 AJC / Homo-sapiens-sapiens'. [No Reserve]
PROVENANCE:
Found in the Somme Region, France.
From an old French collection.
Ex Norfolk private collection.
From the collection of a South West London, UK, 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 4.4, for type.
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