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  • It is stated that Zachariah Tudor, a poor child of the parish of Monmouth, is to be apprenticed to John ?Donnington, bell-maker.
Indenture for a child to be apprenticed in making bells, Monmouth, 1670
  • This illustration, set during the Early Bronze Age, shows a metalworker pouring molten bronze into a stone mould for an axe. On the right-hand side of the foreground can be seen a range of axes and daggers that have already been produced.
Reconstruction of a metal-worker about 2000BC
  • This illustration, set during the later Bronze Age, shows a metalworker working alongside a range of bronze items that have already been produced. These include axes, cauldrons, swords and spearheads.
Reconstruction of a metal-worker about 800BC
  • This illustration shows the kind of tools that were in use just after the introduction of metalworking into Wales. At this time stone tools were still being used, for example arrowtips, whilst tools such as arrowheads were being made out of bronze.
Reconstruction of Bronze Age warriors about 2500BC
  • Gold was one of the first metals to be used in Wales, along with copper and alloys such as bronze. The use of gold for jewellery and ornamentation has been a common theme since the earliest times.
Reconstruction of a lady wearing a gold lunula from Llanllyfni, (about 2000BC)
  • Meadow Mill was formerly the site of the rolling and hammer mill of the Greenfield Copper and Brass Company built in 1787. Following the closure of this mill, the buildings were later used as tinplate works between 1868 and 1874. The four large chimneys which are prominent in this photograph date from the period when the mill was used as a tinplate works.
Meadow Mill, Holywell, c. 1910