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MuseumsSite Name: Llandudno Museum
Country: Wales
NOTE: This site is 1.028 km away from the location you searched for.

County: Conwy Type: Museum
Nearest Town: Llandudno
Map Ref: SH78008240  Landranger Map Number: 115
Latitude: 53.324416N  Longitude: 3.833157W
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Llandudno Museum
Llandudno Museum submitted by dodomad : Conservators at work on Blodwen the stone age skeleton Photo Credit: Cardiff University (Vote or comment on this photo)
Llandudno Museum tells the story of the archaeology of the local area back into prehistoric era to a time just after the last Ice Age. Archaeological items range from Neolithic, Bronze Age and Roman. Life size display of copper mining on the Orme.

Kendrick’s Cave has the earliest signs of human occupation and Pant y Wennol Cave was probably used as an animal den from even earlier times. The bones of a variety of animals have been found in this cave – hyena, wolf, deer, pig and goat – even the ankle bone of a woolly rhinoceros.

The Ice Age art and burials found in Kendrick’s Cave in the late 1870s are now recognised as much more than local curiosities. The unique decorated horse jaw, the extraordinary notched deer bones and well preserved human remains found on the Great Orme by Thomas Kendrick are now acknowledged as being of international importance in understanding our past.

Address: 17-19 Gloddaeth Street, LL30 2DD
Phone: 01492 876517
Opening Hours: April to Oct : Tues - Sat 10.30-1pm / 2pm-5pm, Sun 2.15 -5pm. Nov to March: Tues - Sat 1.30-4.30pm
Admission: Small Charge

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Note: Newly conserved 'Blodwen' the 5,500 year old skeleton goes in display in her own exhibition
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Llandudno Museum submitted by dodomad : Blodwyn the 5500 year old skeleton at Llandudno Museum (before conservation) Photo Credit: Daily Post - more photos and information here (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Blodwen the neolithic skeleton goes on display at Llandudno Museum by Andy B on Monday, 22 February 2016
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Ken Dibble campaigned for Blodwen to be returned to Llandudno and negotiations were conducted over several years. Llandudno Museum launched a public appeal which used Crowdfunding to raise nearly £3,000 towards the purchase of a new display case for the skeleton’s remains.

Reg Haley, Chairman of the Chardon Trust, which owns and manages Llandudno Museum, added: “We are so excited to welcome Blodwen home and to share her story with our visitors and the local community.

More information and photos here
http://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/north-wales-news/blodwen-skeleton-returns-north-wales-8655319
and
http://www.dailypost.co.uk/whats-on/arts-culture-news/blodwen-neolithic-skeleton-go-display-9038028

See also the page from Bacup Natural History Society:
http://www.bacupnaturalhistorysociety.co.uk/blodwen.htm

Blodwen as she is fondly known is a name of Welsh Origin meaning White Flower

Summary of Report by the Palaeoecological Research Unit, Univeristy of Manchester 1996: The bones are thought to be from a female, who died between the ages of 54 and 63 years. Her death occured around the years 3.510 BC. She was approximately 5ft tall and of a fairly robust build. Degenerative arthritis of the cervical spine and right knee, and the rugged acromial ends of both her clavicles, indicate that she had led a physically arduous life. More specifically, these features suggest that she was used to carrying heavy loads on her head and heavy weights with her arms extended by her sides. These heavy weights may have been milk or water containers. It was possible that she was suffering from, and perhaps died of metastatic (secondary) cancer which may have spread from a primary site in the breast. Accompanying her remains were some bones from a young pig aged under 36 months at the time of its death

Stable isotope results for the Little Orme skeleton by Rick J Schulting, School of Archaeology, University of Oxford (PDF)
http://www.bacupnaturalhistorysociety.co.uk/index_htm_files/Little%20Orme%20Report.pdf
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Skeleton Blodwen, aged 5,500, comes home to Llandudno by Andy B on Monday, 22 February 2016
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News item from 2010, for background

The skeleton of a woman who lived 5,500 years ago has gone on display in her home town, more than a century after she was discovered. Blodwen is the nickname given to a Neolithic skeleton found on Little Orme in Llandudno, Conwy county, in 1891.

Her remains were been housed at a museum in Bacup, Lancashire.

The skeleton was discovered in a fissure by an engineer excavating quarry works, who then donated her to the museum in his home town of Bacup.

Carbon dating tests carried out at Oxford University have revealed that Blodwen died around 3510 BC, aged somewhere between her late fifties and early sixties.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/10498384
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Llandudno’s oldest resident is conserved to showcase North Wales’ Stone Age past. by Andy B on Monday, 22 February 2016
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Flower of the Stone Age flourishes again

Conservators from Cardiff University have conserved a Stone Age skeleton thanks to a Llandudno Museum project funded by the Association of Independent Museums’ Conservation Grant Scheme.

Known locally as Blodwen, the 5,500 year old skeleton was originally recovered at the end of the 19th century from a fissure on the Little Orme overlooking Llandudno during quarrying. With no museum in the town at the time, she was taken by quarry owner Joseph Storey back to his home town of Bacup in Lancashire.

Following a long term campaign by local historian the late Ken Dibble, and with the support of Llandudno Museum, the skeleton was finally returned to the North Wales town last year after residence in England for 123 years.

Senior Conservator Phil Parkes and Johanna Thunberg, a MSc in Professional Conservation student at Cardiff, spent three days working on the project on site at the museum where Blodwen, ‘little white flower’ in Welsh, will remain on permanent display for the benefit of local people.

Project lead Phil Parkes explained the amount of work involved: “Overall the skeleton was in a stable condition, but upon closer examination it was noted that areas where the spongy bone was exposed were generally weak. We removed the old adhesive where it was visible and re-joined broken bones using an acrylic resin. The skeleton now looks more complete, with previously fragile areas in a more stable condition and old adhesive repairs no longer evident.”

Llandudno Museum Chair Roy Haley said: “We are very grateful for the support of the Association of Independent Museums for this important work to conserve the remains of Llandudno’s oldest inhabitant so that future generations can learn about this area 5,500 years ago, and share in Blodwen’s remarkable story.”

Source: Cardiff University
http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/news/view/195735-flower-of-the-stone-age-flourishes-again
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