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LOT 2279
River Kennet Fossil Tooth
3 1/4 in. (78 grams, 82 mm).
A bovine tooth with root. [No Reserve]
Provenance
Found from the River Kennet in a gravel bed during the drought of 1976.
Property of a Berkshire, UK, gentleman collector.
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