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Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales
Large handaxe of pointed form, tip missing. Flaked on a pebble on which some of the original surface survives. On one face there are a number of hinged flake fractures leaving a large central hump.
Quartzite handaxe found in an allotment at Penylan, Cardiff. This flint tool was used for butchery about 300,000 years ago.
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Site Name: Llwyn-y-grant allotment, plot 164, Penylan
Notes: Found by the donor, in the general area of the coordinates stated, among stones thrown out by the cultivation of the allotment plot on the SE slope of Penylan Hill, about 50 feet above sea level and about 50 yards NE from the new (at the time) secondary school for boys. Both the material and its condition suggest that it travelled a considerable distance from the place where it was originally deposited.
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