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LOT 1220
Stone Age Twydall Flint Scraper Implement
LOWER PALAEOLITHIC PERIOD, CIRCA 400,000 B.P.
3 3/8 in. (73 grams, 84 mm).
Formed on a slightly curved flake with one sharpened convex edge; with inked collection number: '1.1343 / .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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