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LOT 1461
Stone Age Speckled Stone Axehead Group
NEOLITHIC PERIOD, CIRCA 6TH-4TH MILLENNIUM B.C.
2 3/4 - 4 in. (644 grams total, 71-100 mm).
Group of three axeheads each with a thick, rounded butt; two with narrow worked edge and one with rounded edge. [3, No Reserve]
ProvenanceEx Ian Richardson collection, Sunderland, UK.
From a collection acquired on the UK art market from various auction houses and collections mostly before 2000.
From an important Cambridgeshire estate; thence by descent.
Cf. MacGregor, A. (ed.), Antiquities from Europe and the Near East in the Collection of Lord MacAlpine of West Green, Oxford, 1987, item 4.151, for type.
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