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LOT 1531
Stone Age 'Troussencourt' Flint Axehead
NEOLITHIC PERIOD, CIRCA 3000-2000 B.C.
4 in. (161 grams, 10.1 cm).
With broad square butt and rounded edge, some cortex remaining; old collector's legend 'TROUSSENCOURT' to one face. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFound Troussencourt, Northern France.
Ex old French collection.
Acquired prior to 2000.
From a private Norfolk, UK, collection.
From the collection of a South West London, UK, specialist Stone Age collector.
Cf. MacGregor, A. (ed.), Antiquities from Europe and the Near East in the Collection of Lord McAlpine of West Green, Oxford, 1987, item 4.19, for type.
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