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LOT 1676
Stone Age Twydall Hand Axe
LOWER PALAEOLITHIC PERIOD, CIRCA 400,000 B.P.
3 in. (90 grams, 77 mm).
With catalogue description '1151 Borer - point on distal end'; inked collector's legend '2.PB. 1151.C/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.
This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D’Amato.
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