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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Pant-Y-SaerCountry: Wales County: Anglesey Type: Chambered Tomb
Nearest Town: Benllech
Map Ref: SH5097182401 Landranger Map Number: 114
Latitude: 53.317502N Longitude: 4.238659W
Condition:
5 | Perfect |
4 | Almost Perfect |
3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
0 | No data. |
-1 | Completely destroyed |
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4 | Good |
3 | Ordinary |
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1 | Awful |
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5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
4 | Short walk on a footpath |
3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
2 | A long walk |
1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
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5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
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3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village |
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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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