Gwynedd Archaeological
Trust Regional Historic Environment Record
Hendrefor Burial Chambers, Pentraeth
Primary Reference Number (PRN) : 2640 Trust : Gwynedd Community : Cwm Cadnant Unitary authority : Ynys Mon NGR : SH55097731 Site Type (preferred type first) : NEOLITHIC CHAMBERED TOMB Status : Scheduled Monument
Description : Remains of two chambers 30ft apart. W chamber no more than a group of recumbent megaliths that were ruined at least as far back as the late C18th. <1>
E chamber consists of one stone standing 9ft high and two fallen stones nearby. In 1802 it was intact; upper-stone measuring about 3yds across, supported by two uprights. <2>
Ruined by 1825. <3>
Burial chamber near Hen-drefor 1m NNW of church. Possible remains of a mound about 120yds in circumference. (RCAHMW, 1937)
Field investigation report 'not able to recognise this' <5>
Scheduled <6>
The remains of the two burial chambers are as described by Daniel. <7>
As previously described. The 'mound' on which the stones lie is probably just a natural outcrop. Some of the smaller stones around the western group of stones are field clearance dumping. The whole lies on the south end of a small low broad spur, giving panoramic views to SE, S and SW but none to the north. The monument as a whole seems to have been aligned to the ESE, away from the mountain. (Smith, 2003)
Hendrefor, 1 and 2.-Here there are two cromlechs, not, however, contiguous, but possibly the remnants of a series. They are both on Hendrefor Farm, on the left hand of the road leading from Beaumaris to Pentraeth, and about mile from Llansadwrn Church. The second of these cromlechs has now fallen, but it was standing in 1802 (Anwyl, 1908).
