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Stone Age 'Salisbury' Knapped Flint Handaxe
Stone Age 'Salisbury' Knapped Flint Handaxe
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Lower Palaeolithic Period, 480,000-250,000 B.C. Ovate in form with thick butt, lentoid in section, patinated white. Cf. MacGregor, A. (ed.), Antiquities from Europe and the Near East in the Collection of Lord MacAlpine of West Green, Oxford, 1987, item 1.14, for type. 272 grams, 14 cm (5 1/2 in.).

Found whilst field walking near Salisbury, Wiltshire, UK. Ex British private collection. From the collection of a South West London, UK, specialist Stone Age collector.

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Stone Age 'Salisbury' Knapped Flint Handaxe

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