Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Ogof Arian Cave
Moelfre, Isle of Anglesey, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Cave
- Period
- Prehistoric
- Community
- Moelfre
- Unitary authority
- Isle of Anglesey
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 53.36850, -4.27883
- SAM number
- AN106
- Cadw record number
- 2540
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 consists of a cave containing archaeological deposits situated on a steep, wooded slope overlooking Afon Goch and Traeth Dulas to the NW.
The outer chamber measures approximately 1.5m to 2m wide and 1.3m high with a small platform outside the entrance. The cave extends 6m into the hillside and beyond this is a smaller passage, measuring approximately 0.5m by 0.8m that extends at least another 25m into the hillside. This is more regularly round in section. The cave has evidence for prehistoric activity associated with it, in the form of flint artefacts found there.
The monument is of national importance for its potential to enhance our knowledge of prehistoric settlement, ritual and funerary practices. It retains significant archaeological potential, with a strong probability of the presence of associated archaeological features and deposits.
The scheduled area comprises the remains described and areas around them within which related evidence may be expected to survive.
Nearby in the register
- Morris Brothers MemorialNo class recordedunder 1 mi
- Grand LodgeDomesticunder 1 mi
- Walls and railings at entrance by Grand LodgeDomesticunder 1 mi
- Walls and railings at entrance opposite Grand LodgeDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.