Stone Age 'Somme' Grey Speckled White Knapped Flint Handaxe

MIDDLE PALAEOLITHIC PERIOD, CIRCA 240,000- 38,000 B.P.

4 1/8 in. (210 grams, 10.5 cm).

With broad rounded butt, D-shaped in section, some cortex at butt. [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 1.12, for type.

CONDITION

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