 Glyn chambered tomb - front view. |
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The chambered
tomb of Glyn is situated on a gentle southeastern slope just outside
the village of Benllech above Red Wharf Bay to the east of Anglesey
with another Neolithic
tomb of Pant-y-Saer less than 800 metres
away to the northwest. What makes Glyn a little different to many tombs
is that it is partly built into the underlying bedrock on the edge of
a limestone terrace, instead of upright slabs chunky blocks of limestone
have been used to provide support for the capstone.
The capstone itself has broken into at least two pieces - I'm not sure
if the block to the right in the picture above is a third piece - it
would originally have been 4.5 metres long and the break can be clearly
seen in the picture below with a 1 metre section lying to the left.
There is very little trace of a covering mound, much of it has presumably
been carted away for stone walling but CADW record a slightly raised
area around the tomb having a diameter of about 14 metres that is presumably
the remains of a covering cairn.
The tomb was partially investigated in 1909 but the excavator found that the contents of the chamber had already been rifled without any finds being recorded. |
 Glyn chambered tomb - side and rear view showing the break in the massive capstone. |
