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Lligwy Burial Chamber
Eight low uprights support a massive capstone (18 feet long and 15 feet wide).
In 1908 an excavation revealed the bones of 15 - 30 individuals, animals, shells, flint
implements, a bone pin and pottery. The pottery's decoration indicates that the chamber was used during
the Neolithic and early Bronze Ages.
Din Lligwy Hut Group
A late Roman settlement (3rd - 4th century A.D.) which may have been used since the Iron Age.
The half acre site is enclosed by a wall 1.5 metres thick and contains a combination of round
and rectangular huts. Artifacts found here suggest that it was a farming settlement and that
some metalwork took place.
Castell Bryn Gwyn
A late Neolithic or early Bronze Age settlement that was probably used right up until early Roman times.
The enclosure was surrounded by a stone rampart and a flat-bottomed ditch. Finds include late Neolithic
flints and pottery, a bronze awl and few shards of 1st century Roman pottery.
Bryn Celli Ddu Burial Chamber
(the Mound in the Dark Grove)
The monument appears to have been used for a very long time, originally starting as a henge
in the later Neolithic Age and later being covered with a mound to become a passage tomb. The partial mound that you see today is
a reconstruction, as is the decorated 'Pattern Stone' near the ceremonial pit at the back of the chamber.
(The original is now in the National Museum and Gallery, Cardiff).
A narrow passage, 27 feet long leads into a polygonal stone chamber where human bones, (both burnt and unburnt),
were found together with flint arrowheads, a stone bead, and limpet and mussel shells. The tomb was blocked up
once it ceased to be used.
Caer Lęb
A rectilinear enclosure, 200 feet long and 160 feet wide, defined by double banks and ditches.
The site was probably first occupied in the Iron Age and the finding of a medieval coin show
that it continued to be used for hundreds of years. Excavation has uncovered circular and rectangular
stone buildings. Other finds include quern stones and a glass stud.
Bodowyr Burial Chamber
This small polygonal chamber has a large mushroom-shaped capstone, (8 feet long and 6 feet wide), supported by
five upright stones, one of which has now fallen. The site has never been excavated, but its form is
characteristic of the Neolithic period.
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