NAR SH57NW3

A mutilated Bronze Age funerary mound and the site of a second, both excavated in 1909.
The barrow is at present some 38m north-south by 31m and rises about 1.0m. In 1909 it was generally circular and rose up to 2.8m high. The second barrow, about 60m to the east has been greatly ploughed down and could only be made out as a gentle swelling in 1970, although it stood up to 1.3m high in 1909. Both have shown up clearly from the air as ring ditches (CUAP ABQ34, 37).
The existing barrow was found to be made up of a low gravel mound sealed by a layer of stones and topped by a layer of sand. Seven in-urned cremations were found, some with small fire-damaged bronzes. These were dated to the period between 1500 & 1,400 BC. There was also a small cist holding a cremation and an extended inhumation, presumably intrusive.
The eastern barrow was a stony mound containing an extended burial set within a complex boat-shaped cist covered by a large slab. It is though to be earlier than the surviving barrow.
It has been claimed that these barrows were at the eastern end of a loose alignment of similar monuments extending roughly 600m to the west towards a standing stone (NPRN 302506). However, the identification of the additional barrows is uncertain (NPRN 406565).

Sources: Baynes in Archaeologia Cambrensis 6th series 9 (1909), 312-332
RCAHM Anglesey Inventory (1937), 48-9
Hemp in Archaeologia Cambrensis 96 (1941), 97-8
St Joseph in Antiquity XXXV 140 (1961), 265
Lynch 'Prehistoric Anglesey' (1970), 137-43

John Wiles 05.09.07