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Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales
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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Site Name: Llangrwyne, Llangenni
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.
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