Location: .About 4 miles south-west of Menai Bridge, reached along a farm track near Llandaniel Fab. (SH 508702)
There are several intriguing features at this burial site, the hrst being its location directly on top of a former henge. .Also intriguing are the suggestions of rituals performed here: the small three-sided structure outside the entrance where an ox had been sacrificed; and the pit in the centre of the mound, behind the burial chamber, where a burnt human ear-bone was found. The carved stone now standing in the pit is a replica of a stone which was found lying nearby, the original being in the National Museum of Wales. It carries a strange meander design, possibly symbolising the journey of the soul, or acting as a protection for the soul on its journey, d'he burial chamber itself is no less interesting, being constructed of very large slabs of stone. The 27-foot passage contains a low stone bench where offerings may have been left, and inside the chamber is an enigmatic 4-foot standing stone, smooth and rounded. P'rag-ments of bone, burnt and unburnt, were found inside the tomb.
The entrance to Bryn-Celli-Ddu chambered cairn; the stone kerb uas positioned in the ditch of the former henge.
‘Bryn-Celli-Ddu’ means ‘the hill in the dark grove’, which hints of the Druids, who worshipped in groves of trees and whose last stronghold was this island of Anglesey. Perhaps the spirits once believed to live at Bryn-Celli-Ddu were the spirits of those last Druids, who died cruelly at the hands of the Romans.
Ancient Mysteries of Britain
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