Stone Age Twydall Flint Hand Tool

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

3 1/8 in. (51 grams, 80 mm).

Scraper formed on a narrow flake of triangular section; with old inked legend 'I. 1353 / 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.

Literature

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

CONDITION

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