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LOT 1473
Stone Age Twydall Knapped Flint Implement
LOWER PALAEOLITHIC PERIOD, CIRCA 400,000 B.P.
3 in. (157 grams, 76 mm).
Cordiform handaxe with cortex to one face, old inked inscription '2.SS.1241.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.
The Twydall finds are discussed in F.R. Beresford Palaeolithic Material From Lower Twydall Chalk Pit In Kent: The Cook And Killick Collection in Lithics Vol.39, 2021.
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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. -
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Lower Palaeolithic Period, circa 200,000 B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £156
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Exceptionally Large Stone Age Knapped Flint Axehead
Neolithic Period, circa 7th-5th millennium B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £1,235
Square in section with broad rounded butt and only slightly narrower tip, polished, some cortex remaining. 2.05 kg, 33 cm
From the property of Mr O.S., a late Suffolk, UK, gentleman, who acquired at auction from the 1960s.
