Stone Age Twydall Flint Proto Hand Axe

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

4 in. (276 grams, 10 cm).

An early hand axe formed on a thick, keeled flake, trimmed to edges; with inked collection number: 'SN.1170.A / 2.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.

CONDITION

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LOT 1209