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LOT 0317
Stone Age 'Swanscombe' Knapped Flint Axe
LOWER PALAEOLITHIC PERIOD, CIRCA 400,000-200,000 B.P.
4 1/4 in. (208 grams, 10.9 cm).
Triangular with broad rounded butt; with old inked inked label 'Callands Lane / Oct 1994 / CW'. [No Reserve]
Provenance
Found Swanscombe, Kent, UK.
Literature
Cf. MacGregor, A. (ed.), Antiquities from Europe and the Near East in the Collection of Lord MacAlpine of West Green, Oxford, 1987, item 1.1.
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