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Henblas Burial Chamber is a chambered tomb located on Anglesey, Wales, dating to the Neolithic period. The monument consists of a stone-built burial chamber characteristic of megalithic funerary architecture constructed during the fourth and third millennia before the present. As a chambered tomb, Henblas represents an important class of prehistoric communal burial monument, reflecting the ritual and religious practices of early farming communities in Wales. The site is protected as a Scheduled Ancient Monument under the Welsh heritage designation system.
Henblas Burial Chamber is a scheduled monument protected by Cadw under reference AN003. View the official record →
Henblas Burial Chamber is a chambered tomb located on Anglesey, Wales, dating to the Neolithic period. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Cadw under reference AN003.
Henblas Burial Chamber dates from the prehistoric period, and is classified as a chambered tomb. It is one of over 32,000 scheduled monuments protected across the UK.
Henblas Burial Chamber 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 AN003.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Bryngwyn Standing Stones (6.2 km), Castell Bryngwyn Prehistoric Enclosure (6.3 km), Trefwri Standing Stone (6.5 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 13 strands of Henblas Burial Chamber's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
Every location is different. Not every section appears for every place, only what the historical record actually holds turns up in a report.
Henblas Burial Chamber stands on Dinantian Rocks (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Mississippian. The rock here is limestone with subordinate sandstone and argillaceous rocks.