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Pleistocene horse tooth

A heavily orange stained bone embedded in a lump of concretion. A fragment of a bone shaft of an unrelated bone is also visible in the concretion as are limps of limestone and rounded mudstone pebbles.

Horse meat was a good source of protein in the Neanderthal diet.

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Pleistocene horse tooth . Pontnewydd Cave
Image: © Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum Wales
Pleistocene horse tooth . Pontnewydd Cave
Image: © Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum Wales

Collection Area

Archaeology & Numismatics

Item Number

81.5H/7.B314

Find Information

Site Name: Pontnewydd Cave, St Asaph

Grid Reference: SJ 0155 7106
Collection Method: excavation
Date: 1980

Notes: Upper Breccia; K20SE

Acquisition

Donation, 19/1/1981

Measurements

length / mm:29.0
width / mm:48.4
thickness / mm:27.2

Material

tooth

Location

St Fagans Wales Is gallery : Neanderthal Tools and Animals

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Neanderthal Tools & Animals record verified by E.A. Walker
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Pleistocene horse tooth . Pontnewydd Cave
© Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum Wales
Pleistocene horse tooth . Pontnewydd Cave
© Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum Wales
  • Pleistocene horse tooth . Pontnewydd Cave
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