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LOT 1122
Stone Age Upnor Clactonian Flint Cleaver
LOWER PALAEOLITHIC PERIOD, CIRCA 400,000 B.P.
3 5/8 in. (402 grams, 93 mm).
An Upnor Clactonian flint cleaver, bearing collector's handwritten inventory information to one face 'Upnor 2B'. [No Reserve]
Provenance
Found Upnor, 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.
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