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LOT 1485
Stone Age Twydall Knapped Flint Tool
LOWER PALAEOLITHIC PERIOD, CIRCA 400,000 B.P.
2 3/4 in. (102 grams, 71 mm).
Irregular-shaped scraper with some cortex remaining; marked '2.S5.1244.A / 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.
Literature
The Twydall finds are discussed in Beresford, F.R., Palaeolithic Material From Lower Twydall Chalk Pit In Kent: The Cook And Killick Collection, in Lithics, Vol.39, 2021.
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