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Pleistocene bear bone
This bone is now in two pieces having been reconstructed out of a heavily crushed bone excavated at the cave. The bone is stained yellow and although in many fragments is pretty much complete.
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Collection Area
Archaeology & Numismatics
Item Number
88.166H/3.D5018
Find Information
Site Name: Pontnewydd Cave, St Asaph
Grid Reference: SJ 0155 7106
Collection Method: excavation
Date: 1988
Notes: Lower Breccia : K 7 SE/K 6 NW
Acquisition
Donation, 22/11/1988
Measurements
length / mm:405.0
width / mm:114.7
thickness / mm:84.5
weight / g:863.2
Material
bone
Location
St Fagans Wales Is gallery : Neanderthal Tools and Animals
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