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Llugwy Chambered Tomb is a Neolithic burial monument located on the island of Anglesey in Wales, dating to the Neolithic period. The site consists of a chambered cairn constructed from stone, characteristic of the megalithic burial practices prevalent in Wales during the fourth and third millennia BCE. As a chambered tomb, the monument would have served as a communal burial place and ritual centre for the local prehistoric community, reflecting the significance of organised funerary practices and the construction of monumental architecture in Neolithic society. The site remains an important archaeological record of prehistoric settlement and belief systems in Wales, protected under the Cadw scheduling system.
Llugwy Chambered Tomb is a scheduled monument protected by Cadw under reference AN009. View the official record →
Llugwy Chambered Tomb is a Neolithic burial monument located on the island of Anglesey in Wales, dating to the Neolithic period. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Cadw under reference AN009.
Llugwy Chambered Tomb 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.
Llugwy Chambered Tomb 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 AN009.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Parciau Dovecote (2.1 km), Pant-y-Saer Burial Chamber (3.7 km), Pant-y-Saer Hut Circles (3.8 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 13 strands of Llugwy Chambered Tomb'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.
Llugwy Chambered Tomb stands on Dinantian Rocks (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Mississippian. The rock here is limestone with subordinate sandstone and argillaceous rocks.