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LOT 1207
Stone Age Twydall Flint Implement
LOWER PALAEOLITHIC PERIOD, CIRCA 400,000 B.P.
2 5/8 in. (92 grams, 67 mm).
Likely a scraper; bearing an inked identification '6.MC.1081.A / TWYDALL' to one face. [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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