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<< Our Photo Pages >> Pant-Y-Saer - Chambered Tomb in Wales in Anglesey

Submitted by vicky on Tuesday, 24 September 2002  Page Views: 9909

Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Pant-Y-Saer
Country: Wales
NOTE: This site is 0.483 km away from the location you searched for.
County: Anglesey Type: Chambered Tomb
Nearest Town: Benllech
Map Ref: SH5097182401  Landranger Map Number: 114
Latitude: 53.317502N  Longitude: 4.238659W
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
 3 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
 3 Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
0No data.
 3 Accuracy:
5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
0no data
 5

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Pant-Y-Saer
Pant-Y-Saer submitted by raythemapman : Close up on 35 mm film. (Vote or comment on this photo)
Chambered Tomb in Anglesey

This rather unusual rectangular chamber in a kidney-shaped cairn with horned forecourt lies on the top of a limestone escarpment south of Benllech. The site was excavated by Lindsay Scott in 1933 when it was revealed that the chamber which is now composed of three uprights and a capstone, was built over a rectangular pit. The chamber is now open to the west, but was probably originally blocked with dry-stone walling. The entrance to the north from the forecourt is closed by a stone near to which pottery and bone were discovered during excavations.

References

Megalithic Enquiries in the West of Britain, T.G.E.Powell et Al (Liverpool 1969).
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Pant-Y-Saer submitted by enkidu41 : SH 509824 The small 12' square chamber is cut from bedrock. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Pant-Y-Saer submitted by paulcall : View from the north (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Pant-Y-Saer submitted by raythemapman : The tomb with Snowdonia in the background. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Pant-Y-Saer submitted by CalonDdraig : Back view of the Pant y Saer site on Anglesey. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Pant-Y-Saer submitted by CalonDdraig : Pant y Saer chamber on Anglesey. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Pant-Y-Saer submitted by TimPrevett : Showing the capstone of Pant y Saer with the lovely deep blue of deep twilight to the south west.

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Pant-Y-Saer submitted by TimPrevett : Pant y Saer in advanced twilight; not as dark as picture suggests due to juxtaposition of flash off the stone. (1 comment)

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Pant-Y-Saer submitted by TAlanJones : The bones of 54 seperate individuals were discovered here. 18 were children with 9 being still born infants. Apparently, the number of skulls did not tally suggesting that the bones were transient, moved from site to site.

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Pant-Y-Saer submitted by Postman : Life glorious life, oi gerroff that stone

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Pant-Y-Saer submitted by Postman : 20th June 2016

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Pant-Y-Saer submitted by Postman : Consumed by summer

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Pant-Y-Saer submitted by Postman : Exposed bedrock in places.

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Pant-Y-Saer submitted by Postman : First view

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Pant-Y-Saer submitted by Postman : 20th June 2016

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Pant-Y-Saer submitted by Postman : Mid March 2006

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Pant-Y-Saer submitted by durhamnature : Drawing, from "Archaeologia Cambrensis" via archive.org

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Pant-Y-Saer submitted by raythemapman : There were the remains of 54 humans found in this tomb,the remains were of all age groups male and female,no skulls or long bones were found.

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Pant-Y-Saer submitted by raythemapman : Looking inside the tomb.

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Pant-Y-Saer submitted by raythemapman : The capstone. 07-09-09.

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Re: Pant-Y-Saer by TimPrevett on Thursday, 15 February 2007
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The second chamber in the Benllech area. Use the 1:25,000 map - take the path to the west of a bungalow on the B5108, which heads south. This comes to a stile; over it and then right uphill. Then left to another stile into an oval shaped field. Head to the south west corner, where a rusted gate and stile wait. Over the stile, and the chamber emerges to the left if you proceed straight on from the stile. There were about a dozen horses here when I visited at evening twilight. Note: they don't like camera flash. All of them stampeded (away, thankfully) when automatic function of the camera triggered the flash. Besides the obvious impressive sized stones, notice the very wide and low circular mound on which they are placed.
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