Bodowyr Burial Chamber

Bodowyr Burial Chamber is a Neolithic burial chamber made of a few large stacked stones in a farmer's field on the north Wales island of Anglesey [1]. It is located at Bodowyr Farm, 1.25 mi east of Llangaffo [1]. Writing in the Mona Antiqua Restaurata in the early eighteenth century, the antiquarian Henry Rowland described this as "a pretty cromlech standing at the top of a hillock at Bodowyr" [1]. He also mentioned a "small cirque" nearby and the remnants of a cairn from which the stones had mostly been removed for use as building stone; no trace remains of these structures [1]. In 1833 the capstone was said to be supported by four upright stones so one of these would appear to have fallen since then [1]. Bodowyr Burial Chamber is the central burial chamber of a passage grave of a type more frequently found in Ireland [1]. The chamber has three upright stones about a metre high supporting a robust, wedge-shaped capstone [1].