Brymbo's stone chest

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Brymbo's stone box with the Brymbo Man - in the museum

The Bronze Age stone box of Brymbo in 1958 of workers in Brymbo , a district of Wrexham in Denbighshire ( Wales discovered), at today's mailing address 79 Cheshire View.

Under a large stone slab, about 0.3 m below the surface, lay the remains of a person - also known as Brymbo Man - in a stool position with a flint knife and an ornate goblet from the bell beaker culture in a stone box .

Using modern scientific techniques, experts have reconstructed its appearance. Little is known about his origins, but reconstruction shows that he was about 1.67 m tall, about 40 years old, and right-handed.

The Brymbo Stone Box is a Scheduled Monument .

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Coordinates: 53 ° 4 '45.1 "  N , 3 ° 3' 42.1"  W.