Manufacturing Stone Axes at Penmaenmawr
5,000 years ago, the first farmers made stone axes to fell trees.
It took skill to identify which rocks to use, quarry the stone and knap it into the rough shape of an axe. People spent hours grinding rough axes into polished tools.
Axes were made on a huge scale at Graig Lwyd, a quarry near Conwy in north Wales. Hundreds of tonnes of waste can still be seen there. The axes were traded with other parts of Britain.
