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LOT 1601
Stone Age 'Stonehenge' Flint Scraper
NEOLITHIC PERIOD, 6TH-4TH MILLENNIUM B.P.
3 in. (43 grams, 77 mm).
Ovate in plan with inked label 'Field near Stonehenge November 1968' and 'N8-73', '114' to reverse. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFound near Stonehenge, UK, November 1968.
From the private collection of Kenneth Machin (1936-2020), Buckinghamshire, UK; his collection of antiquities and natural history was formed since 1948; thence by descent.
This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D'Amato.
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