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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]
Provenance
Found by a field walker in Warsash, Hampshire, UK, in 1998.
Literature
Cf. MacGregor, A. (ed.), Antiquities from Europe and the Near East in the Collection of Lord MacAlpine of West Green, Oxford, 1987, item 1.20, for type.
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