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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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Image: © Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum Wales
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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