Ffion Reynolds writes: We are returning to the Bryn Celli Ddu landscape for our fourth year of excavation between the 11 June to the 7 of July 2018. Do you live on Anglesey or in northwest Wales? We are seeking local volunteers to join our team. It’s free to take part, so we hope you’ll sign up.
The project focuses on the landscape surrounding Wales’ famous Neolithic passage tomb. During the last three years we have built up a picture that includes a Late Neolithic / Bronze Age cairn, a enigmatic Neolithic pit circle, along with several rock art panels situated close by, making a case for a complex multi-period landscape. We return to continue to work in the vicinity, looking further at a possible Neolithic causewayed enclosure in the same area.
During the excavation, the team have opened a 10m × 10m trench over the north-east quarter of a circular Neolithic/early Bronze Age cairn lying some 30m south-west of the main Neolithic passage tomb. We recorded the cairn in plan, recovered samples for radiocarbon dating, and re-excavated previous interventions in order to determine the construction sequence.
The excavation revealed a circular stone cairn with two concentric stone kerbs. Large stones of conglomerate, blueschist, and quartzite had been used for the kerbing and cairn. Among the finds were pieces of worked flint, charred plant remains, and occasional fragments of burnt bone.
Further afield and on rising ground within sight of Bryn Celli Ddu, with views of prominent landmarks such as the Snowdonia mountain range, we have discovered eleven unrecorded rock art outcrops.
The proximity of these monuments to Bryn Celli Ddu emphasises the complexity of this landscape, about which we still know very little.
To get involved and be part of the excavation team, please contact Dr Ffion Reynolds on CadwPublicProgrammes@gov.wales to sign up!
More at
https://bryncellidduarchaeology.wordpress.com/2018/02/20/new-season-dates-announced-for-the-bryn-celli-ddu-landscape-project-2/
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