BRYN-Y-MEIBION;YSGWENNANT BARROW

Site Details

NPRN
306807
Map Reference
SJ13SE
Grid Reference
SJ18953053
Unitary (Local) Authority
Powys
Old County
Denbighshire
Community
Llansilin
Type of Site
BARROW
Broad Class
Religious, Ritual and Funerary
Period
Bronze Age

Site Description

An artificial mound, 19m NW-SE by 14m and 2.4m high, set upon a natural mound, c.40m in diameter.
Excavation, 1951-68, revealed a complex constructional sequence, opening with a probable ditch round barrow with two burial pits, adapted to accommodate a secondary in-urned cremation. The mound material contained fragments of Neolithic pottery.
(source Os495card; SJ13SE8)
J.Wiles 18.10.02