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A late Bronze age axe head was discovered by Jonathan while ploughing a field at Brychgoed. It is now in Brecon Museum. The drawing shows how the axe was probably attached to a handle. It was likely to have been a valuable item and used as a symbol of status as well as for cutting timber. One edge was damaged with a sharpening stone after its discovery, before its significance was recognized.
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- Bronze age people probably lived in the upper Senni valley. Some of the field names suggest this. The permanent streams and springs above the Senni River were likely sites of settlement and farmsteads are now at these sites, but no Bronze Age burials have been discovered here. The acid soil is likely to have dissolved away most traces of these. Most of the fields have been ploughed and stones removed. Some of the stones are of a size which could have been associated with Bronze Age burials. Some are still present at the side of wooden gate posts.
- A carved stone about 1.45m (4ft 9in) long and half a metre (1ft 8 in) wide, with 12 cup (hollow) marks of various shapes and sizes on the face was found by Alan Bowring, Fforest Fawr Geopark Officer, in 2014 below Craig Cerrig-gleisiad and near the A470 road. It probably dates from the early to middle Bronze Age period - 2,500 BC to 1,500 BCE - and it may have served as a way marker. It is the only stone with cup marks in the Brecon Beacons National Park.
Updated 20/02/2022