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LOT 1510
Large Stone Age Twydall Knapped Flint Scraper Tool
LOWER PALAEOLITHIC PERIOD, CIRCA 400,000 B.P.
4 in. (245 grams, 10.3 cm).
Irregular in form with worked cutting edge, inked inscription '1684 / TWYDALL'. [No Reserve]
Provenance
Found Twydall, Kent, UK.
Richard Jones collection, Welling, Kent, UK, 1912-1915.
Ex Rochester Museum, Kent collections.
Specialist collection of J Edwin Jarvis.
Ex Martin Schoyen collection, London, UK.
Accompanied by a copy of an article on the site at Twydall.
Literature
The Twydall finds are discussed in F.R. Beresford Palaeolithic Material From Lower Twydall Chalk Pit In Kent: The Cook And Killick Collection in Lithics Vol.39, 2021.
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