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Flaked stone tool
Object Number 2004.29.12981
Display Title Flaked stone tool
Descriptions
Object Description Written on board: "England / Cornwall / & / London"; printed on photograph: "Palaeolithic implement found in Gray's Inn Lane, London, about 1700, with / elephant bones. Sloane Collection. The first recorded discovery of this kind. / British Museum. / Phot. Oxford University Press."
Department Photographic
Date 1860-1921
Artist Oxford University Press
Culture
  • ancient European styles and periods
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Europe / England / <State> / <County> / London
Materials Print, black and white adhered to Paperboard
Dimensions Overall: 13.97 × 8.89 cm (5 1/2 × 3 1/2 in.)

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