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LOT 1554
Stone Age South Downs Flint Spokeshave
NEOLITHIC PERIOD, CIRCA 4TH-3RD MILLENNIUM B.C.
3 1/8 in. (143 grams, 79 mm).
Finely polished flint axehead with broad curved edge; chipped and broken, probably re-used as a draw-knife or spokeshave using the exposed curved edges; old inked legend 'Nr. Beachy H[ead] / polished + broken / flint celt / 10.6.64'. [No Reserve]
Provenance
Found Beachy Head, South Downs, Sussex, UK.
Acquired from Oxford, UK.
From the private collection of Kenneth Machin (1936-2020), Buckinghamshire, UK; with collection no.N165; his collection of antiquities and natural history was formed since 1948; thence by descent.
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