Tŷ Newydd Burial Chamber

Tŷ Newydd Burial Chamber is a Neolithic dolmen located northeast of the village of Llanfaelog on the Isle of Anglesey in Wales [1]. Tŷ Newydd burial chamber is a ruined megalithic dolmen set up on a natural outcrop and would originally have been covered with a mound or cairn [1]. The capstone measures 4.0 metres by 1.8 metres and is up to 1.2 metres thick [1]. The capstone is cracked and rests on three of the four remaining uprights [1]. The chamber was excavated in August 1935 by Charles Phillips [1]. The chamber was found to be about 2.8 metres by 1.2 metres, and its area was defined by a spread of charcoal with a hearth at the eastern end, where there was thought to have been a second chamber or passage [1]. The finds included five flint flakes, a burnt flint arrowhead, a small chip from a polished flint axe, and nine small fragments of pottery [1]. Phillips believed that the pottery fragments were from the Beaker culture, and thus might represent Bronze Age reuse of an earlier Neolithic monument [1].