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LOT 1560
Stone Age Tool and Artefact Group
6TH-4TH CENTURY B.C.
7/8 - 2 1/2 in. (162 grams total, 23-66 mm).
Including flint scrapers and a small cleaver. [4, No Reserve]
ProvenanceFound on various UK sites since 1974.
Property of an Essex collector.
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Stone Age 'Watton' Flint Handaxe
Palaeolithic Period, circa 240,000-38,000 B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £598
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Stone Age Twydall Flint Tool
Lower Palaeolithic Period, circa 400,000 B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £39
Small kidney-shaped implement; with an old inked inscription: '2.SS.1284 A Twydall'. 26.6 grams, 58 mm
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.
