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Mynydd Bach
Date Added: 12th Jun 2025
Site Type: Round Cairn
Country: Wales (Anglesey)
Visited: Yes on 8th Jun 2025. My rating: Condition 2 Access 4
Mynydd Bach submitted by guile on 4th May 2010. Small and perfectly formed, this boulder has much to please the eye in Mynydd Bach ring cairn.
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Log Text: an unassuming little ring cairn. in a dramatic coastal location just below the more well known Barclodiad y Gawres
Capel Garmon
Date Added: 12th Jun 2025
Site Type: Chambered Tomb
Country: Wales (Gwynedd)
Visited: Yes on 11th Jun 2025. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 5 Access 3
Capel Garmon submitted by Penbron on 2nd Oct 2020. Pooch on sentry duty at Capel Garmon
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Log Text: A horned cairn with a blind ‘portal’ to the east (see Belas Knap)
The remaining capstone is very large and almost circular. Far more complex than the usual simple single chamber dolmen found locally.
In a stunning location-views to Snowdonia.
It is sturdily fenced off from livestock and on the CADW visit list 10am to 4pm (so no need to ask to visit). I walked up from Conwy Falls café which does a good all day breakfast. A lovely walk on good ground, signposted (diversion).
Dyffryn Ardudwy
Date Added: 12th Jun 2025
Site Type: Portal Tomb
Country: Wales (Gwynedd)
Visited: Yes on 10th Jun 2025. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 5 Access 4
Dyffryn Ardudwy Dolmens submitted by Adam Stanford on 24th Feb 2008. Both chamber at night looking south (ish).
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Log Text: The smaller tomb was built first, then the larger one added and a massive cairn put over them. east facing
The hillfort Craig y Dinas is not here.
Moel Goedog Hillfort
Date Added: 12th Jun 2025
Site Type: Hillfort
Country: Wales (Gwynedd)
Visited: Yes on 10th Jun 2025. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 5 Access 3
Moel Goedog Hillfort submitted by Postman on 31st May 2016. Best viewed from a distance
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Log Text: brilliant views over the coast and mountains. a gentle stroll after trekking to Bryn Cader Faner the previous day
Bryn Cader Faner
Date Added: 12th Jun 2025
Site Type: Ring Cairn
Country: Wales (Gwynedd)
Visited: Yes on 9th Jun 2025. My rating: Condition 2 Access 2
Bryn Cader Faner submitted by CoralJackz on 15th Oct 2024. Visited in 2024
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Log Text: Walked over from below Bryn Bwbach, the valley is amazing. Took a ‘short cut’ at Coetty-maur up to the main path higher up at Y Gym. This path is a bit sploshy but not boggy. The weather was dire grey cold windy wet. I would have liked to stay longer but the wind was just grim.
I counted 26 pointy stones, 2 were next to each other. Seeing it on the hillside is a welcome sight after a long trek.
Rhoslan
Date Added: 12th Jun 2025
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: Wales (Gwynedd)
Visited: Yes on 9th Jun 2025. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 3 Access 4
Rhoslan submitted by CoralJackz on 8th Nov 2024. Our attempt to recreate the photograph from the 1950s!
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Log Text: dolmen in a field with quite a few large stones and field clearance.
Barclodiad-y-Gawres (Anglesey)
Date Added: 12th Jun 2025
Site Type: Passage Grave
Country: Wales (Anglesey)
Visited: Yes on 8th Jun 2025. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 4 Access 4
Barclodiad-y-Gawres (Anglesey) submitted by TimPrevett on 13th Apr 2004. A look at the dolmen, which is the top of the cruciform section, inside Barclodiad.
As with many dolmens, the capstone almost seems precariously placed.
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Log Text: Enclosed encaged in a mock up like at Newgrange, which is very misleading.
It has guided tours inside at summer weekends you book online. I would rate the guide at 5/10.
The original tomb is quite small, has a similar sized cap on the main chamber as other local chambers. What makes Barclodiad different is its side chambers, and the decorated stones giving a distinct Irish style. No Bronze Age material was found so it seems to be not used later.
Oh, and the passage faces north. Haha.
Ty Newydd (Llanfaelog)
Date Added: 12th Jun 2025
Site Type: Chambered Tomb
Country: Wales (Anglesey)
Visited: Yes on 8th Jun 2025. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 3 Access 4
Ty Newydd (Llanfaelog) submitted by SandyG on 17th Dec 2021. View from north west in 1980.
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Log Text: Massive chunky stones the cap looks like a whale it even has a forked tail
Trefignath
Date Added: 12th Jun 2025
Site Type: Chambered Tomb
Country: Wales (Anglesey)
Visited: Yes on 8th Jun 2025. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 5 Access 4
Trefignath submitted by ericgrindle on 29th Jul 2016. Trefignath - Anglesey Trefignath is a chambered tomb found close to Holyhead. despite its proximaty to the urban environment, lingering as the sun goes down often reveals stunning sunsets. Trefignath is a chambered tomb found close to Holyhead. despite its proximaty to the urban environment, lingering as the sun goes down often reveals stunning sunsets. Image copyright: Eric Grindle (Eric Grindle), hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API.
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Log Text: Three tombs built on a rock outcrop. The earliest opened to north, the second and third to the east. Then it was all made into a large mound. With two tall portals at the east.
There are several quartz stones in and around the edge of the horn of the cairn, and the SW stone of the first chamber is a stone of solid quartz.
The site exuded power and kudos.
nice to see another site that supports the idea that cardinality was important
Presaddfed
Date Added: 11th Jun 2025
Site Type: Chambered Tomb
Country: Wales (Anglesey)
Visited: Yes on 8th Jun 2025. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 3 Access 4
Presaddfed submitted by pab on 25th Sep 2012. Presaddfed, September 2012
Timber support which features in most photos on Portal has now been removed, so the more southerly chamber looks even better.
Delightful location - the walk over the field feels more like a procession, with the chambers looking more impressive all the time.
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Log Text: a pair of dolmens, one collapsed, the other has the capstone on still. a mixture of stone types-thin slate and chunky (dolomite?)
Bryn Gwyn Stones
Date Added: 11th Jun 2025
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: Wales (Anglesey)
Visited: Yes on 7th Jun 2025. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 3
Bryn Gwyn Stones submitted by petelovespurple on 24th Apr 2012. I'd been to see Castell Bryn Gwyn, noticed the stones marked on the map, when I got there discovered there was a dig going on, they had found the base of one of the destroyed stones plus stone holes for other stones, I'd have thought there would be more info here......
more photos in a set of the same name on my Flickr photostream
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Log Text: i nearly missed these after visiting the henge, they are almost entirely hidden by the high hedge now. quite gobsmackingly large. two very different stones and types. one is thin slate like, the other is thick chunky.
Castell Bryn-Gwyn
Date Added: 11th Jun 2025
Site Type: Henge
Country: Wales (Anglesey)
Visited: Yes on 7th Jun 2025. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 4 Access 3
Castell Bryn-Gwyn submitted by stu on 28th Jun 2002. Castell Bryn-Gwyn Henge. The remaining bank of the henge at Bryn-Gwyn. A farmhouse now occupies the other half.
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Log Text: i parked in a small layby opposite the farm at Cefn Maesoglan, walked down the old pathway past the ponds. absolute magic. my phone app registered a Cetti's warbler!!!!
Bodowyr
Date Added: 11th Jun 2025
Site Type: Passage Grave
Country: Wales (Anglesey)
Visited: Yes on 7th Jun 2025. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 4
Bodowyr submitted by Postman on 14th Aug 2015. january 2010
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Log Text: an easy amble across the field from toad layby
Bryn Celli Ddu
Date Added: 11th Jun 2025
Site Type: Passage Grave
Country: Wales (Anglesey)
Visited: Yes on 7th Jun 2025. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 3
Bryn Celli Ddu submitted by Humbucker on 23rd May 2022. The replica carved standing stone at the rear entrance to Bryn Celli Ddu.
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Log Text: i got to the car park fairly early so managed to get an hour at the site by myself which was lovely.
a woman turned up and started walking round and round looking very serious and superior.
Then some German tourists turned up, had not researched their visit and flew their drone around high and then right down low over us. Really irritating. I was fairly abrupt to them in a very anglosaxon manner. this amused the walking around woman.
At least ask people if they mind being filmed not just film them without asking. very rude and against drone guidance. It's a CADW listed site so has a no drone policy. I could have brought my drone and got some great shots. it seems it is old fashioned to be polite.
so. mixed feelings on the site. great site. and most visitors are respectful.
Cae Coch
Date Added: 6th Jun 2025
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: Wales (Conwy)
Visited: Yes on 6th Jun 2025. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 2
Cae Coch submitted by TimPrevett on 9th Apr 2004. A composite of the spectacular back drop to the south west of Cae Coch standing stone, a short walk from the Rowen Youth Hostel, along with numerous other ancient monuments.
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Log Text: another grand cefn coch southside stone orientated north south
Maen Crwn
Date Added: 6th Jun 2025
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: Wales (Conwy)
Visited: Yes on 5th Jun 2025. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 2
Maen Crwn submitted by stu on 16th Oct 2002. Nice standing stone in field outside Red Farm.
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Log Text: another stone orientated north south
Caer Bach
Date Added: 6th Jun 2025
Site Type: Hillfort
Country: Wales (Conwy)
Visited: Yes on 6th Jun 2025. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 2
Caer Bach submitted by TimPrevett on 22nd Aug 2004. A view down on to Caer Bach, showing its prominent place above the Conwy Valley.
This is taken ascending Tal y Fan mountain.
There is a conspicuously white stone just left of centre; this stone is very large, and of different character than the other stones.
In the valley below within the picture (but not visible) is the Roman port and fort of Canovium - an essential link in their North Wales strongholds.
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Log Text: middling sized hill camp. steep hill to SE with bank and ditch uphill to the NW. the entrance seems to be from the south, curving into a flat area in the SE separate from the main camp. at the top can be seen large rounded boulders of the inner ramparts. it commands extensive views over the Conwy river.
Siambr Gladdu Caer Bach
Date Added: 6th Jun 2025
Site Type: Chambered Tomb
Country: Wales (Conwy)
Visited: Yes on 6th Jun 2025. My rating: Ambience 4 Access 2
Siambr Gladdu Caer Bach submitted by SteCymru14 on 13th Aug 2019. Edrych tuag at y safle. Fel y dywedais yn y disgrifiad, mae’r maen capan yn enfawr (wrth gymharu â safleoedd eraill tebyg yn yr ardal hon) ac mae’r pridd naturiol yn dal i’w weld yn ei le gwreiddiol.
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Log Text: hard to discern if this is natural or man made or a bit of both. its a very small 'chamber'
Caerhun Chambered Tomb
Date Added: 6th Jun 2025
Site Type: Chambered Tomb
Country: Wales (Conwy)
Visited: Yes on 6th Jun 2025. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 5 Access 2
Caerhun Chambered Tomb submitted by TimPrevett on 30th Jul 2004. The view west - notice the curve of stones in front of the chamber; Maen y Bardd visible to the far left.
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Log Text: a chambered tomb, open to the NE. large capstone and supports, with one area without an upright has drystone wall instead. to the rear of the capstone is another large stone-looks like a collapsed capstone half in the ground. so i'm thinking this has two chambers.
Maen y bardd
Date Added: 6th Jun 2025
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: Wales (Conwy)
Visited: Yes on 6th Jun 2025. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 5 Access 2
Maen y bardd submitted by Postman on 26th Jul 2015. Autumn equinox 2007
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Log Text: a chamber directed SE over the valley. massive capstone and a large rear stone. it is incorporated into a modern era wall, which has taken a lot of the stone from the original tomb probably