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LOT 1104
Stone Age Twydall Retouched Flint Implement
LOWER PALEOLITHIC PERIOD, CIRCA 400,000 B.P.
2 3/4 in. (149 grams, 70 mm).
A retouched Twydall flint implement, bearing handwritten collector's inventory id. to the body '[ ]B. 1125 C. 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.
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