<< Our Photo Pages >> Trefignath - Chambered Tomb in Wales in Anglesey
Submitted by drewparsons on Thursday, 04 August 2016 Page Views: 30902
Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Trefignath Alternative Name: TrefignaethCountry: Wales County: Anglesey Type: Chambered Tomb
Nearest Town: Holyhead
Map Ref: SH25858056 Landranger Map Number: 114
Latitude: 53.293302N Longitude: 4.614361W
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 |
5 | Superb |
4 | Good |
3 | Ordinary |
2 | Not Good |
1 | Awful |
0 | No data. |
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. |
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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elad13 visited on 30th May 2020 - their rating: Cond: 2 Amb: 4 Access: 4
lscollinson visited on 3rd Sep 2019 - their rating: Cond: 2 Amb: 2 Access: 4 The modern surroundings of this site spoil the ambience of the place.
bishop_pam visited on 29th May 2019 - their rating: Cond: 4 Amb: 2 Access: 4
cactus_chris visited on 19th Jun 2018 - their rating: Cond: 4 Amb: 5 Access: 4
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Average ratings for this site from all visit loggers: Condition: 3.22 Ambience: 3.44 Access: 4.11
Additional information submitted by Drew Parsons in September 2010:
The site was excavated in 1977-1979 and finds included pot sherds and stone tools which suggested a date of 3000 BC for the construction of the earliest (western) of the three chambers. The central chamber and newest eastern chamber were probably added several centuries later and the whole site covered in a mound of stones. The western chamber was a simple box of flat stone slabs covered by a cairn of boulders. The later added central chamber now is collapsed with its massive capstone broken in two. This chamber and the earlier western chamber where then covered in a wedge shaped mound of stones retained by dry-stone walling with a forecourt. The eastern chamber was a later addition and is largely intact with massive portal stones and a large chamber. Quartz seams run through the orthostats like so many other sites across Europe. The site is accessed from its own car park off the new wide road which runs from the roundabout south of Holyhead. This new road is parallel to the old lane from which the site was once accessed. Despite the presence of the large aluminium smelter across the dual carriageway A55, the site is an impressive one to visit.
Original submission by Vicky Morgan
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