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Stone Age Polished Axehead
Stone Age Polished Axehead
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Neolithic Period, circa 6th-4th millennium B.C. With polished brown-black surface, eccentric curved cutting edge, tapering rounded butt; remains of an old label to verso. Cf. MacGregor, A. (ed.), Antiquities from Europe and the Near East in the Collection of Lord MacAlpine of West Green, Oxford, 1987, item 4.31, for type. 771 grams, 17 cm (6 3/4 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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Stone Age Polished Axehead

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