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LOT 1708

Stone Age Twydall Hand Axe

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

3 in. (69 grams, 75 mm).

With catalogue description '1075 Handaxe point on flake'; inked collector's legend '6.MP. 1075.C/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.
This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D’Amato.

CONDITION

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LOT 1708

Stone Age Twydall Hand Axe

Sold for (Inc. bp): £260

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