3780 x 2698 px | 32 x 22,8 cm | 12,6 x 9 inches | 300dpi
Aufnahmedatum:
23. August 1993
Ort:
Presaddfed, Bodedern, Anglesey, Ynys Mon, North Wales, UK
Weitere Informationen:
Looking SE at the southern chamber. Two unconnected chambers set in line circa 2m apart. Pictured is the southern standing polygonal chamber circa 3m across x 1.3m high with capstone in place on four supports plus modern wooden brace. The Northern chamber has collapsed: one stone remains standing, another upright leans against it along with what looks like the capstone; another broken stone lies on the ground nearby. Their location in a valley bottom makes would be unusual for a passage grave but neither are they portal dolmens. Early descriptions are confusing, one suggestion is that they are "a pair of closed chambers built in succession and unified under a single (destroyed) cairn" - like Trefignath, but no remains of a cairn or barrow survive and there is no clear access between the chambers. It is possible that two separate tombs were built at different times & then covered by one mound or cairn long since robbed.When they were photographed in Aug’93 they were in a poor state: muddy, cattle-trampled and propped with wood. Local tradition says that in 1801 a family evicted from a nearby cottage lived in the southern chamber.
