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LOT 1528
Stone Age Teardrop-Shaped Knapped Chert Axehead
PALAEOLITHIC PERIOD, CIRCA 200,000 B.C.
4 1/4 in. (190 grams, 10.9 cm).
Flaked cobble, lentoid in section with broad butt and rounded point. [No Reserve]
Provenance
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.
Literature
Cf. MacGregor, A. (ed.), Antiquities from Europe and the Near East in the Collection of Lord MacAlpine of West Green, Oxford, 1987, item 1.22, for type.
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