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Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales
Human rib fragment containing the tip of a flint arrowhead
An arrowhead in a human rib bone, about 3700 BCE. It was found in Penywyrlod tomb. The bone did not regrow, suggesting the person died shortly afterwards.
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Site Name: Penywyrlod, Talgarth
Notes: found during emergency excavations carried out by the Dept. of the Environmant at Pen-y-wyrlod long cairn either from chamber 3 or entrance to chamber 3, based on preservation type - M. Wysocki 28/7/98
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