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Massive Stone Age Speckled Polished Axehead
Massive Stone Age Speckled Polished Axehead
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Neolithic Period, circa 7th-5th millennium B.C. With rounded cutting edge and almost-circular shank, thin pointed butt. Cf. MacGregor, A. (ed.), Antiquities from Europe and the Near East in the Collection of Lord MacAlpine of West Green, Oxford, 1987, item 4.154, for type. 3.17 grams, 39 cm (153/8 in.).

From a collection acquired on the UK art market from various auction houses and collections mostly before 2000. From an important Cambridgeshire estate; thence by descent.

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Massive Stone Age Speckled Polished Axehead

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