Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Hendrefor Burial Chambers
Cwm Cadnant, Isle of Anglesey, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Chambered Tomb
- Period
- Prehistoric
- Community
- Cwm Cadnant
- Unitary authority
- Isle of Anglesey
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 53.27292, -4.17439
- SAM number
- AN025
- Cadw record number
- 2515
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 5 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1883 "Watershed map England, Wales 3." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Summary description and reason for designation
The following provides a general description of the Scheduled Monument.
The monument comprises the remains of a chambered tomb, dating to the Neolithic period (c.4,400 BC - 2,900 BC). Chambered tombs were built and used by local farming communities over long periods of time. There appear to be many regional traditions and variations in shape and construction.
The site comprises the remains of two burial chambers formed by two groups of stones 6.25m apart set on a slightly raised area of the field in which they sit. The eastern group of stones contains the only remaining standing upright, which is 2.1m in height and 1.8m wide at its base; two large stones lie on the western side of the upright. The western group of stones consists of three large stones which partially lie on top of one another.
The monument is of national importance for its potential to enhance our knowledge of prehistoric burial and ritual. The monument is an important relic of a prehistoric funerary and ritual landscape and retains significant archaeological potential, with a strong probability of the presence of both intact burial or ritual deposits and environmental and structural evidence, including a buried prehistoric land surface. Chambered tombs may be part of a larger cluster of monuments and their importance can further enhanced by their group value.
The scheduled area comprises the remains described and areas around them within which related evidence may be expected to survive.
Nearby in the register
- Hendrefor EarthworkEnclosureunder 1 mi
- CollegeDomesticunder 1 mi
- Hafoty Medieval HouseHouse (domestic)under 1 mi
- HafottyDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.