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Neolithic stone polished axehead

A highly polished axe found at Llangenny, in the Brecon Beacons. Neolithic farmers used fire and hafted stone axes like this to clear woodland. 3800-2500 BCE

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Neolithic stone polished axehead
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Collection Area

Archaeology & Numismatics

Item Number

18.152/2

Find Information

Site Name: Llangrwyne, Llangenni

Collection Method: surface find
Date: 1860

Notes: Found near the Upper Paper MIll on the Grwyney River during alterations to the mill. Obtained by Rev. Augustus Brown, Vicar of Cathedyne, Bwlch, Breconshire, shortly after they were found in August of above year. Purchased by Mr J. S. Wilde at a sale of the goods of the late Rev. Brown, who died in November 1917. The exact date of this purchase is not known.

Acquisition

Purchase, 8/1918

Measurements

length / mm:138
width / mm:65.1
thickness / mm:30.2

Material

argillite

Location

St Fagans Wales Is gallery : First Face

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