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LOT 0329
Stone Age 'Somme' Grey Speckled White Knapped Flint Axehead
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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LOT 0329
Stone Age 'Somme' Grey Speckled White Knapped Flint Axehead
Sold for (Inc. bp): £416
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