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´óÏó´«Ã½ Wales History ´óÏó´«Ã½ Wales History | 13:04 UK time, Tuesday, 19 October 2010

at Swansea has been given a commemorative handkerchief from the 1893 Pontypridd Eisteddfod, which was found hidden in an abandoned house in Burma during World War Two.

souvenir handkerchief

Dewi Phillips found the handkerchief hidden inside a wall in Burma and brought it back to Wales

The remarkable souvenir was found by soldier, Dewi Phillips, and had remained in his house in Rhos near Swansea for decades.

Dewi Phillips died in 2000 at the age of 80, and the family had only just started going through the large number of souvenirs and mementos he had gathered when they found the Victorian handkerchief.

The handkerchief depicts the cremation in Llantrisant, near Cardiff, in 1893 of the radical activist, druid and surgeon Dr William Price.

Read more on this story on the ´óÏó´«Ã½ Wales News website.

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