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Lower Palaeolithic stone levallois core
Waste material tells us that the Neanderthals made tools at Pontnewydd Cave.
A levallois core, unstruck, with a convex ventral surface and flat dorsal surface. It is mostly the dorsal surface that has been worked with just a few removals from the vetral face. Some of the original pebble surface remains on the ventral surface.
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Image: © Amgueddfa Cymru - Museum Wales
Collection Area
Archaeology & Numismatics
Item Number
81.5H/3.B270
Find Information
Site Name: Pontnewydd Cave, Clwyd
Grid Reference: J22
Collection Method: excavation
Date: 1980
Notes: Breccia Grid Square : J22
Acquisition
Donation, 19/1/1981
Measurements
(): length / mm:71.0
(): thickness / mm:36.5
(): weight / g:164.0
(): width / mm:65.5
Material
siltstone
Location
St Fagans Wales Is gallery : Neanderthal Tools and Animals
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