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Pant-y-Saer Burial Chamber is a Neolithic chambered tomb located on the island of Anglesey in Wales. The monument consists of a megalithic structure with stone-built internal chambers, typical of passage grave or gallery grave traditions found across prehistoric Wales and the wider Atlantic seaboard. Dating to the Neolithic period, the site represents an important funerary and ritual monument of the fourth or third millennium BCE, serving as a communal burial place for Neolithic communities. The chamber's construction and architectural form reflect the sophisticated megalithic building practices and the ceremonial significance attached to ancestor veneration during this formative period of Welsh prehistory.
Pant-y-Saer Burial Chamber is a scheduled monument protected by Cadw under reference AN004. View the official record →
Pant-y-Saer Burial Chamber is a Neolithic chambered tomb located on the island of Anglesey in Wales. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Cadw under reference AN004.
Pant-y-Saer 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.
Pant-y-Saer 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 AN004.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Hendrefor Burial Chambers (6.5 km), Hafoty Medieval House (6.7 km), Hendrefor Earthwork (6.9 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 13 strands of Pant-y-Saer 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.
Pant-y-Saer Burial Chamber stands on Dinantian Rocks (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Mississippian. The rock here is limestone with subordinate sandstone and argillaceous rocks.