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LOT 1614
Stone Age Upnor Knapped Flint Tool
LOWER PALAEOLITHIC PERIOD, CIRCA 400,000 B.P.
4 7/8 in., (278 grams, 12.4 cm).
A Clactonian worked flint gouge; old collector's legend 'Upnor / A-3'. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFound 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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