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Coygan Cave

Near Laugharne, Carmarthenshire

Where Neanderthals left their hand axes, before the quarry ate the hill.

Coygan Cave held Neanderthal stone hand axes, left tens of thousands of years ago, along with the bones of hyenas, mammoths and woolly rhinos. It was one of the few Neanderthal sites in Wales.

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When
Neanderthal era
Where
51.7500, -4.4700
Group
Bigfoot & Hominids

Visiting

Nothing survives. Finds are in museums in Cardiff and Carmarthen.

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