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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Benllech Chambered Tomb
Country: Wales County: Anglesey Type: Chambered Tomb
Nearest Town: Bangor  Nearest Village: Benllech
Map Ref: SH518825  Landranger Map Number: 114
Latitude: 53.318624N  Longitude: 4.226271W
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.
no data 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.
no data 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
3

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Chambered Tomb in Anglesey

This tomb is composed of a small oval chamber with drystone walling and two small standing stones near the entrance, roofed with a single capstone. The site was excavated last century but no finds were discovered.

References

Megalithic Enquiries in the West of Britain, T.G.E.Powell et Al (Liverpool 1969)
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SH5182 : The pharmacy and a butcher's shop in the centre of Benllech by Eric Jones
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SH5182 : Bend in the A5025 near the Plas Glanrafon Hotel by Eric Jones
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Re: Benllech - are we sure? by Andy B on Monday, 12 April 2010
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Vicky entered both the sites at the same time and they are both referenced as from Megalithic Enquiries in the West of Britain, T.G.E.Powell et Al (Liverpool 1969) so I can only assume they are both listed separately in that book.

I have also found this on Coflein

http://www.coflein.gov.uk/en/site/302679/details/BENLLECH+MEGALITHIC+GOOSEHOUSE%3B+DRWS-Y-NANT+DISCREDITED+BURIAL+CHAMBER/

SH5191082667

At the Benllech Megalithic Goosehouse a massive slab covers a small, low chamber 0.5-0.6m high. This has drystone walls with two orthostatic stones and is open to the east. A smaller, but otherwise similar chamber, again open to the east, adjoins on the south. These were set against a field wall in a field of rough ground, now a bungalow garden, above the confluence of two streams.

The site was excavated as a Neolithic tomb chamber in 1965 shortly after its discovery or recognition. It is now thought to be comparatively recent and is dated by the fragments of a medicine found beneath the chamber's lowest stone. It has been identified as an agricultural structure of some kind, a goosehouse, corn drier or root store, or even as a rather bashful folly. There are, however, problems with all of these interpretations. Despite all this the monument has retained its scheduled status, its very ambiguity cancelling out its apparent modernity.

Sources: Lynch in Archaeologia Cambrensis 115 (1966), 11-26
'Prehistoric Anglesey' (1970), 55, fig 54
CADW Field Wardens Report for AN094 (1993)
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Re: Benllech - are we sure? by RaytheMapman on Thursday, 27 December 2007
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I agree with Tims comment,the grid ref locates the chamber in the middle of Bennlech.
Is there any imformation when the above observations were published.
Regards.
Ray.
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Benllech - are we sure? by TimPrevett on Monday, 12 February 2007
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I would like to suggest this entry is actually the Pant y Saer tomb
http://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=5297

Description and appearance seem to match.

I find no reference to a tomb at the above location for this Benllech entry, and the situation now appears to be underneath / among residential housing if still surviving.

Cheers, Tim.
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