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LOT 1111
Stone Age Twydall Flint Retouched Implement
LOWER PALEOLITHIC PERIOD, CIRCA 400,000 B.P.
3 3/4 in. (364 grams, 94 mm).
A retouched Twydall flint implement bearing a handwritten collector's id. to the body '1433 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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