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LOT 1102
Stone Age Twydall Large Flint Core
LOWER PALEOLITHIC PERIOD, CIRCA 400,000 B.P.
4 1/2 in. (994 grams, 11.3 cm).
A large Twydall flint core bearing collector's handwritten inventory id. '1779 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.
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