Tŷ Newydd Burial Chamber is a Neolithic

dolmen A dolmen () or portal tomb is a type of single-chamber megalithic tomb, usually consisting of two or more upright megaliths supporting a large flat horizontal capstone or "table". Most date from the early Neolithic (40003000 BCE) and were somet ...

located northeast of the village of

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on the Isle of Anglesey in Wales. It is located near Tŷ Newydd farm, and is in the care of

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Description

Tŷ Newydd burial chamber is a ruined

megalithic A megalith is a large stone that has been used to construct a prehistoric structure or monument, either alone or together with other stones. There are over 35,000 in Europe alone, located widely from Sweden to the Mediterranean sea. The ...

set up on a natural outcrop and would originally have been covered with a mound or

cairn A cairn is a man-made pile (or stack) of stones raised for a purpose, usually as a marker or as a burial mound. The word ''cairn'' comes from the gd, càrn (plural ). Cairns have been and are used for a broad variety of purposes. In prehis ...

.Ty Newydd megalithic burial chamber
Coflein, retrieved 21 November 2013 The capstone measures 4.0 metres by 1.8 metres and is up to 1.2 metres thick. The capstone is cracked and rests on three of the four remaining uprights.

Excavations

The chamber was excavated in August 1935 by Charles Phillips.Glyn E. Daniel (2013), ''The Prehistoric Chamber Tombs of England and Wales'', page 123. Cambridge University Press. The chamber was found to be about 2.8 metres by 1.2 metres, and its area was defined by a spread of charcoal with a hearth at the eastern end, where there was thought to have been a second chamber or passage. The finds included five flint flakes, a burnt flint arrowhead, a small chip from a polished flint axe, and nine small fragments of pottery. Phillips believed that the pottery fragments were from the Beaker culture, and thus might represent Bronze Age reuse of an earlier Neolithic monument.

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