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LOT 1467
Stone Age 'Warsash' Knapped Ovate Handaxe
LOWER PALAEOLITHIC PERIOD, CIRCA 400,000-200,000 B.P.
4 1/4 in. (302 grams, 10.7 cm).
With broad butt and rounded cutting edge. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFound by a field walker in Warsash, Hampshire, UK, in 1998.
LiteratureCf. MacGregor, A. (ed.), Antiquities from Europe and the Near East in the Collection of Lord MacAlpine of West Green, Oxford, 1987, item 1.20, for type.
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