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Bodowyr Burial Chamber

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NPRN93830
Map ReferenceSH46NE
Grid ReferenceSH4621968160
Unitary (Local) AuthorityIsle of Anglesey
Old CountyAnglesey
CommunityLlanidan
Type Of SiteCHAMBERED TOMB
PeriodNeolithic
Description
The Bodowyr Burial Chamber is a megalithic monument now consolidated for public viewing. It consists of five upright orthostatic stones, one now fallen, which define a polygonal chamber. Three of the stones support a mushroom shaped capstone about 2.5m by 1.9m and up to 0.9m thick. The chamber would have lain within a cairn or mound of which there is now no trace. It can be identified as a Neolithic ritual or funerary monument.

Sources: RCAHM Anglesey Inventory (1937), 103
Lynch 'Prehistoric Anglesey' (1970), 25-7

John Wiles, RCAHMW, 8 August 2007.