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LOT 1210
Stone Age Acheulian Cleaver Handaxe
LOWER PALAEOLITHIC PERIOD, BEFORE 200,000 YEARS B.P.
6 1/4 in. (661 grams, 16 cm).
Bifacial with rounded base, retouching to the edges. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFrom an old Hamburg collection, Germany.
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Stone Age Flint Knife Group
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Stone Age Twydall Flint Implement
Lower Palaeolithic Period, circa 400,000 B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £247
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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.
