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LOT 1216
Stone Age Twydall Flint Implement
LOWER PALAEOLITHIC PERIOD, CIRCA 400,000 B.P.
4 in. (183 grams, 10 cm).
Likely a crude cutting and scraping implement; bearing an inked identification '1313 / 1.TWYDALL' to one face. [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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