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Bronze Age · Standing Stone

Bryngwyn Standing Stones

Anglesey, Wales
Cadw SAM AN022
Period
Bronze Age
Site type
Standing Stone
Broad class
Religious, Ritual and Funerary
Nation
Wales
Boundary

Scheduled area

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Overview

History & significance

Bryngwyn Standing Stones is a Bronze Age standing stone monument located in Anglesey, Wales. The site comprises upright stone slabs that would have served ritual, religious, or funerary purposes typical of Bronze Age ceremonial practice in Wales. Standing stones of this period often marked significant landscape features or served as focal points for community gatherings and commemorative activities. The monument is recorded in the Cadw heritage register under designation SAM AN022 and represents an important element of Anglesey's Bronze Age archaeological heritage.

Bryngwyn Standing Stones is a scheduled monument protected by Cadw under reference AN022. View the official record →

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Questions & answers

What is Bryngwyn Standing Stones?

Bryngwyn Standing Stones is a Bronze Age standing stone monument located in Anglesey, Wales. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Cadw under reference AN022.

What period does Bryngwyn Standing Stones date from?

Bryngwyn Standing Stones dates from the bronze age period, and is classified as a standing stone. It is one of over 32,000 scheduled monuments protected across the UK.

Who is responsible for protecting Bryngwyn Standing Stones?

Bryngwyn Standing Stones is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, legally protected by Cadw — the body responsible for designating and safeguarding heritage sites in Wales. The official designation reference is AN022.

What other scheduled monuments are near Bryngwyn Standing Stones?

Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Enclosed Hut Circle Settlement in Coed Glan-yr-Afon (8.4 km), Enclosed Hut Circle Settlement North of Rhedynog Felen Bach (9.1 km), Hut Circle Settlement East of Dinas-y-Prif (9.1 km).

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Monuments
The legally protected scheduled monuments around the location, each with its period, type and significance.
Battlefields
The battles and sieges fought on this ground, mapped and set on a timeline of the wider conflict.
Roman Britain
The Roman roads, forts and towns near here, and the Iron Age people who held the land before Rome arrived.
Civil War
The Civil War fighting, garrisons and recorded militaria in this area, woven into the arc of 1642 to 1651.
Geology
The bedrock beneath the site, its age and rock type, reaching back hundreds of millions of years.
Local Names
What the street and field names around here actually mean, and the history buried inside them.
Historical Maps
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The ground beneath

The bedrock under Bryngwyn Standing Stones

Bryngwyn Standing Stones stands on Unnamed Metamorphic Rocks, Neoproterozoic, bedrock that formed in the Neoproterozoic. The rock here is hornblende schist.

The wider landscape

Around Bryngwyn Standing Stones

Bryn Celli DduArchaeological site · ~3.4 miles