Friday, 1 August 2025

Bryn yr Hen Bobl , Anglesey


 


Bidding adieu to Bryn Gelli Du , we trekked back to the main road . Plas Newydd Burial Chamber is next on the list two kilometres east along the main road . We opt for a slightly longer detour through woodland to a lesser known cairn 'Bryn yr Hen Bobl'  grid ref SH5188869 a stones throw from Plas Newydd . 







Heading east through woodland beneath tall trees and an abundance of flora and fauna . 
Wild garlic on both sides of the forest path . 







Exited the woods ,  path led into a stunning coniferous avenue a few hundred metres in length . 
Menai Strait in foreground . 

I kept thinking this area was sacred to the ancients .No evidence ..
Do you believe in magic ?






Cairn is positioned between two hills measures 40m x 30m x 5m high  
 Unseen Burial Chamber is bottom centre left .








Loose limestone used in the construction scattered over mound .
Panoramic view of mountain range , south east  . 




Capstone .




Burial chamber is as the bottom looking east over the Maenai Strait . 
 Bryn yr Hen Bobl , 'Hill of the Old People' was excavated from 1929 to 1935 where pieces of Neolithic pottery were found .