Ffynnon Beuno cave, Denbighshire, UK, looking WSW from E chamber to main entrance tunnel on L (grill is partway down) with another passage to rear R.
Interior view of Ffynnon Beuno cave, Denbighshire, UK, looking WSW from E chamber to main entrance tunnel on L (grill is partway down passage) with another passage leading off to R. Excavations in 1885 discovered prehistoric stone tools & animal bones mixed together in a meltwater debris flow. The earliest flint tool found was an Aurignacian leaf point of c 36,000BC. Mostly occupied by animals (cave hyenas etc.) but humans lived in the area at different periods during the Early Upper Palaeolithic & used the cave as a temporary shelter. Ffynnon Beuno is on private land & the cave is locked, permission is required to visit it.
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Location: Ffynnon Beuno Cave, Tremeirchion, St Asaph, Denbighshire, Wales, UK
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