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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Foel Fawr (Anglesey) Alternative Name: Cromlech Farm; Llanfechell Chambered TombCountry: Wales
NOTE: This site is 2.197 km away from the location you searched for.
County: Anglesey Type: Chambered Tomb
Nearest Town: Llanfechell
Map Ref: SH3604692003
Latitude: 53.399318N Longitude: 4.467473W
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 |
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-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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Destroyed tomb, with constituent parts thereof still visible.
For more information see Coflein 302680, which describes this site as "A litter of large natural slabs has been identified as a ruined and collapsed megalithic tomb chamber ..... Without further investigation this monument can only be regarded as a suggestive natural feature."
The Northern Antiquarian also feature a page for this site - see their entry for Foel Fawr, Llanfechell, Anglesey, which has directions for finding this site together with a brief archaeology & history, a drawings of the tomb (one from 1804).
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