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LOT 1539
Stone Age 'Troussencourt' Flint Axehead
NEOLITHIC PERIOD, CIRCA 3000-2000 B.C.
4 1/2 in. (150 grams, 11.4 cm).
With narrow rounded butt and broad edge; old collector's legend 'TROUSSENCOURT' to one face. [No Reserve]
Provenance
Found 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.
Literature
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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