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LOT 1258
Stone Age Twydall Flint Flake Implement
LOWER PALAEOLITHIC PERIOD, CIRCA 400,000 B.P.
3 in. (88 grams, 77 mm).
Formed on an irregular flake with one edge trimmed; with inked collector number: '2.GB.1258.A / .TWYDALL'. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFound 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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