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Photo Pages: Bedd Branwen - Ring Cairn in Wales in Anglesey (Sir Ynys Mon)
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Submitted by vicky on Thursday, 15 February 2007 Page Views: 5475
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 Site Name: Bedd Branwen Country: Wales County: Anglesey (Sir Ynys Mon) Type: Ring Cairn
Nearest Town: Holyhead Nearest Village: Elim
Map Ref: SH361850 Landranger Map Number: 114
Latitude: 53.336446N Longitude: 4.463029W
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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Ambience:| 5 | Superb | | 4 | Good | | 3 | Ordinary | | 2 | Not Good | | 1 | Awful | | 0 | No data. |
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Access:| 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 | | 0 | No data. |
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Accuracy:| 5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates | | 4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map | | 3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map | | 2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village | | 1 | co-ordinates of the nearest town | | 0 | no data |
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Ringcairn in Anglesey. Named after Queen Branwen, this ruined cairn is surrounded by a kerb and has a small standing stone in the middle, close to a cist. Several urns and a cremation were found during excavations by Frances Lynch in the 1960s.
Note: With hardly any coverage anywhere on the web of this location, to date, there are now 6 photos of this ring cairn and its area on The Megalithic Portal. Click more to see the photos.
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 Bedd Branwen submitted by ShropshireTraveller
The first view on the right (south) when getting adjacent the field wherein lies Bedd Branwen. Have left the telegraph poles clearly in shot as means of reference. The central stone, and wide, low mound are clearly visible. Perhaps more overgrown in the summer, subject to grazing?
 Bedd Branwen submitted by ShropshireTraveller
Looking north to the nearest of the rocky outcrops.
 Bedd Branwen submitted by ShropshireTraveller
Looking east, with the river in clear view.
 Bedd Branwen submitted by ShropshireTraveller
A close up of the large remaining central stone at Bedd Branwen. Much smaller stones are still detectable as cairn material in the wide, low ring.
 Bedd Branwen submitted by ShropshireTraveller
A pile of clearance material just south of Bedd Branwen, next to the river. In cases like this you can't help but wonder if this was *something* (well of course it was *something*, but perhaps related to the nearby ring cairn).
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Re: Bedd Branwen (Score: 1)
by ShropshireTraveller on Thursday, 15 February 2007
(User Info | Send a Message) | | This is the reputed grave of Branwen, of the Mabinogion. It yielded some quite spectacular pottery when excavated. Seemingly little visited, it is worth a look in. A very quiet, reclusive spot. To the north of the village of Elim, take the footpath to the east. When passing the last field boundary for the field in which the cairn sits (assuming the presence of the 1:25000 map), look to the right, and two telegraph poles should locate the wide low mound, with a knee high stone in the centre. A gate further east easily gives access to the field. The mound is surprisingly wide in diameter. Rock outcrops sit to the north and the east. The river is to the south. Various piles of apparent field clearance make for much headscratching, and "hmmmns" too. | [ Reply to This ]
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Re: Bedd Branwen (Score: 1)
by gru on Thursday, 31 May 2007
(User Info | Send a Message) | if youve been browsing these pages like i have then perhaps youve noticed my entries on bodewryd and llanfechell 1 ... ?
well, anyway ... my family used to own a property in the village of Elim before we lived by the bodewryd stone (thats a tale in itself ... i wont name the house, but in all the years my family owned it, it retained all its original features including hotch-potch windows, some from later centuries than others, but all with that sunken-glass look, where the liquid glass has slowly sunk to the bottom of the panes .... sadly the property was sold on and the new owners decided to replace these irreplaceable artifacts with that terrible affliction ... white uPVC!!! UGHH!!! HEATHENNNNNS!!!)
ANYWAY .... the point is, the cottage was only a few fields away from bedd branwen and i remember dragging my father out for a walk one day to try to locate it, but i being too young and my father too unaware of what we were seaching for, never found the site and to this day it remains unvisited by me, sadly, though i hope to rectify that come the summer, as i now have friends who live as nearby as our old cottage was (though our cottage was to the south and my friends house to the north) and who have invited me to perform at the party they are throwing, thus hopefully ensuring my presence .... however, my point is one more related to the mabinogion, which is what bought me here on my cyber-travels today .... although it is stated here that the site was excavated in the 1960s, there exists a previous record of excavation in 1813, where it was noted a single urn was found upturned, full of ashes and bone fragments ... possibley the cremation urn of the white crow herself, branwen ... but really, my point is ... WHERE ARE THESE EXCAVATIONS HELD? i want to see this urn, and the others that are reported to have been dug up in the 1960s ... WHY ARENT THEY PRESERVED LOCALLY???????
although currently in exile i consider anglesey my spiritual home, and something stirs deep inside me, troubled that our history is widthheld from us! GIVE IT BACK!!!!! :) | [ Reply to This ]
Re: Bedd Branwen (Score: 0)
by Anonymous on Friday, 10 July 2009 | | The Bedd Branwen burials (there are several urns with multiple cremations) and grave goods are held at the Bangor Museum, just over the Menai Straits from Angelesy. They are on display, along with a cut away model of the site, allowing you to see what lies below ground. It is a powerful site, to be sure, but remember that it dates to the Bronze Age, which is pre-Celtic and certainly pre-Mabinogi. I hope you have the opportunity to visit the exhibit, and wish you blessings on your path to Branwen. |
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Re: Bedd Branwen (Score: 0)
by Anonymous on Friday, 10 July 2009 | Here is an informative website about the burials from the Gwynedd Museum and Art Gallery, Bangor where the Bedd Branwen grave goods are held.
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