Stone Age skeleton coming home to Llandudno permanently
A Stone Age skeleton uncovered in Llandudno is returning home permanently after spending the last 120 years in Lancashire.
Blodwen was discovered in the Little Orme, Llandudno during quarrying work in 1891. The skeleton is thought to be around 5,500 years old.
After she was found Blodwen was taken to Bacup, Lancashire by the quarry owner and donated to the Bacup Natural History Society. She's visited Llandudno several times over a period of years for exhibitions in the museum.
Following a campaign by the late local historian Fred Dibble, negotiations with trustees and a fundraising appeal to pay for costs, Blodwen will be coming back to her home-town for good.
Llandudno Museum will be launching a new exhibition featuring Blodwen in April. It will explore Llandudno in the Neolithic period, imagining the world that Blodwen lived in.
Who was Blodwen?:
She was named by experts at Manchester University who studied her.
Research of her bones suggests that she died when she was in her mid-50s to 60s.
She was of robust build.
She had arthritis in both her spine and knees and may have also suffered from cancer.
She may have been an important elder in her community. Living until that age would've been an achievement for someone in the Neolithic (Stone) age.
She apparently died after falling into a vertical fissure in the rocks of the Little Orme.