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LOT 1489
Stone Age Twydall Knapped Flint Proto-Handaxe
LOWER PALAEOLITHIC PERIOD, CIRCA 400,000 B.P.
3 1/2 in. (237 grams, 88 mm).
Cordiform with much cortex remaining to one face, inked inscription '1727 / 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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Stone Age Twydall Knapped Flint Proto-Handaxe
Lower Palaeolithic Period, circa 400,000 B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £117
Triangular in form with one scooped section retaining cortex, inked inscription 1437 / TWYDALL'. 402 grams, 11.3 cm
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. -
Stone Age Twydall Knapped Flint Proto-Handaxe
Lower Palaeolithic Period, circa 400,000 B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £390
Cordiform with much cortex remaining to one face, inked inscription '1727 / TWYDALL'. 237 grams, 88 mm
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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Large Stone Age 'Happisburgh Type' Knapped Flint Handaxe
Lower Palaeolithic Period, circa 600,000-150,000 B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £1,235
A serious collector's piece from the site of the oldest known stone tools in the UK and North West Europe; possibly of Wymer's Type C, worked around a fossil in the flint; on the reverse, a fossil sponge inclusion. 566 grams, 11.4 cm
Found Happisburgh, Norfolk, UK, by John Craven in 2019. Accompanied by a copy of the British Museum's Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS) report no.NMS-E4FF9A.
