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LOT 1211
Stone Age Twydall Flint Flake Implement
LOWER PALAEOLITHIC PERIOD, CIRCA 400,000 B.P.
2 5/8 in. (41 grams, 66 mm).
Formed on s small, thin flake with some trimming to edges; with inked collection number: '6B.1118.A / 4.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.
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