<< Our Photo Pages >> Din Dryfol - Chambered Tomb in Wales in Anglesey
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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Din DryfolCountry: Wales County: Anglesey Type: Chambered Tomb
Nearest Town: Llangefni Nearest Village: Aberffraw
Map Ref: SH3956572490 Landranger Map Number: 114
Latitude: 53.225159N Longitude: 4.404721W
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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Orle visited on 16th Sep 2021 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 4 Access: 4 It is not on the coordinate on the Cadw website so took a bit of exploring as some signs aren't clear. Having found it it was very impressive with huge stones.
bishop_pam couldn't find on 30th May 2019 The nearby farmhouse has now been abandoned, and the CADW signs have not been maintained. We suspect the path to the stones has become too overgrown.
jeffrep visited on 7th May 2009 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 3 Access: 3
coin visited - their rating: Cond: 2 Amb: 5 Access: 3
ericgrindle guile have visited here
Average ratings for this site from all visit loggers: Condition: 2.67 Ambience: 4 Access: 3.33
NE Aberffraw. My visit here was a complete coincidence! Roadworks at the time diverted us past this, and the children were asleep being one to keep an OS map open on my legs while my wife drives this was an opportunity I could not miss!
Signposted from the lane, the footpath goes through a farmyard. The farmer asked about my business (a broad Yorkshire accent he had!), and happily directed me but admonished me not to climb upon the sizeable rocky outcrop which lies behind the chamber. The stones are huge here, and like Ucheldref & Presaddfed, there is some distance between the remaining stones.
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A good description of the archaeology of this site can be found in the Frances Lynch book Prehistoric Angelsey published in 1970 and revised in 1991.
The monumnet is said to be similar to Trefignath in some ways. The chambers are arranged in to a single gallery and the stones were set into the surface rather than into stoneholes which made identifying other uprights difficult when excavations began in 1970. Interestingly the portal stone of chamber 3 was wooden which is "rare but not unknown".
PaulM
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