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LOT 1680

Stone Age British Twydall Flint Tool

LOWER PALAEOLITHIC PERIOD, CIRCA 400,000 B.P.

3 in. (93 grams, 74 mm).

With small area of cortex to the butt; an old inked inscription: '10.46.1036.A 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.
From a Leicestershire, UK, collection.

Accompanied by a copy of an article on the site at Twydall.
This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D’Amato.

Literature

The Twydall finds are discussed in Beresford, F.R., Palaeolithic Material From Lower Twydall Chalk Pit In Kent: The Cook And Killick Collection, in Lithics, Vol.39, 2021.

CONDITION

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LOT 1680

Stone Age British Twydall Flint Tool

Sold for (Inc. bp): £117

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