Burial Chambers, Standing Stones and a Time and Tide Bell
Anglesey, Wales
23rd - 25th September 2022

Off for a long weekend now that schools are back and everywhere should be less bust

Friday

Set off early(ish) on Friday, stopped for coffee and to set a plan for the day.

A late change of the half hour ago plan to stop at a NT property which happens to have a Burial Chamber in its grounds

Plas Newydd Burial Chamber

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Now a bit behind schedule, but original plan resumed with the nearby....

Bryn Chelli Ddu Burial Chamber

Picture shows the entrance, but there is another "window" round the other side

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The day had got so far behind plan that it was now time for the packed lunch, then...

Bodowyr Burial Chamber

My first impression here was that it looked like a profile of Andy Capp

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The field was full of cows - Suzanne insists that the following footprint matched however...
...under-sole inspection proved inconclusive

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Ty Newydd Burial Chamber

This picture is the best angle for this monument as there are two substantial brick columns holding it up

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Bit of a drive, now, up to Holy Island, and Trefignath Burial Chamber, visible from the road but longer to get to

Trefignath Burial Chamber

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This was due to be our last planned stop before heading off to the Hotel, but we passed the Ty Mawr Standing Stone to get to Trefignath,
so stopped on the way to the hotel to take a picture (it was in a sheep field with no obvious access),

Ty Mawr Standing Stone

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Ate in Rosneigr at Mojo's - Fish and Chips - Ł17 for smallest and thinnest fish ever in gluten free batter and cold peas.

We'd passed a burial chamber en-route to Trefignath, it was nearby, so another quick change of plan...

Barclodiad y Gawres Burial Chamber

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Saturday

Plan: Presaddfed, Bedd Branwen then on to Cemaes Bay

After loading up with lunch from the local shop we headed of...

Presaddfed Burial Chamber

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Hsd to block the entrance to the waste water pumping station to park up for the walk to Bedd Branwen

Llanrhwydrys Standing Stones

Northern Stone: 4m high

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Southern Stone: 2.5m high

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Next was the drive to Cemaes Bay for one of the few Time and Tide Bells currently in the UK

Time and Tide Bell, Cemaes Bay
At Low Tide

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Had a swift half in the local pub before heading off to our overnight hotel - these are they....

Northernmost Pub in Wales and the Northernest Hotel in Wales, too

Then overnight at the most northerly Holtel

The previous candidate for mot Northern Hotel was the Bull Bay Hotel

Sunday

Driving back to Cemaes Bay we passed a proposed solar power project, a wind farm and, in the distance, Wylfa Nuclear Power Station.
Three different power sources - A proposed (solar), an operating one (wind), and a decommissioned nuclear plant.