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LOT 1510
Stone Age 'Watton' Flint Handaxe
PALAEOLITHIC PERIOD, CIRCA 240,000-38,000 B.P.
4 1/8 in. (166 grams, 10.5 cm).
Lentoid in section with rounded butt. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFound Watton, Norfolk, UK, by a farmer/landowner.
From an old 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 1.27, for type.
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