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LOT 1608
Stone Age Sutton Courtenay Acheulean Bifacial Handaxe
LOWER PALAEOLITHIC PERIOD, CIRCA 480,000-250,000 B.P.
4 in. (254 grams, 99 mm).
With broad cutting surfaces and thick butt. [No Reserve]
Provenance
Found Sutton Courtenay, near Abingdon-on-Thames, Oxfordshire, UK.
From the private collection of Kenneth Machin (1936-2020), Buckinghamshire, UK; with collection no.P50; his collection of antiquities and natural history was formed since 1948; thence by descent.
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