The Author describes a lithic assemblage attributable to the Early Palaeolithic, discovered in the winter of 1984–85 near Saiwan in central‐eastern Oman. The chert assemblage, characterized by large‐sized artefacts with plain, sloping, striking platform, various types of hand‐axes, side scrapers and cores, is probably to be attributed to a late phase of the Acheulian Culture.