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IX.—The chambered cairn known as Bryn yr Hen Bobl near Plas Newydd, Anglesey

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 July 2011

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The recent examination of the cairn known as Bryn yr Hen Bobl was begun in 1929 at the request of its owner, the marquess of Anglesey, who generously paid the cost of the labour employed throughout the six seasons work on the monument.

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Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1936

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page 254 note 1 See Archaeologia, lxxx, pp. 179–214, and Archaeologia Cambrensis, 1931, pp. 216–58.Google Scholar

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page 254 note 3 i.e. Tir Môn = Anglesey.

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page 266 note 1 After the discovery of the urn on the main axis (p. 269) the revetment only of the western part was searched for further burials, and in 1935 the eastern part and the underlying floor, as well as the interior, was more closely examined by Mr. Colin Gresham.

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page 275 note 2 lxxviii, 205–15.

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page 279 note 1 Dr. Mortimer Wheeler has summarized the recent evidence for the use of cremation in Neolithic tombs in the Northern and Western areas in the Westmorland volume of the Royal Commission on Historic Monuments (p. xxviii). I would emphasize that in these two Anglesey monuments the cremated bones do not seem to have been placed within the chambers.

page 281 note 1 I am indebted to my friend Mr. W. H. White, M.A., B.Sc, F.Inst.P., for his advice in regard to the optical equipment used.

page 281 note 2 It is impossible to distinguish Quercus Robur L. sens, str., Common Oak, from. Q. petraea Lieblein, Durmast Oak.

page 281 note 3 The structure of the wood so listed in this report agrees equally with that of apple (Pyrus Mains L.), but the latter is unlikely to have formed an important part of the woodland flora.

page 283 note 1 North, F. J., Limestones (1930), 394.Google Scholar

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page 287 note 1 It is a curious fact that while the complete axes are all of local material, the many flakes are of imported Graig Lwyd stone, some struck from polished axes, the bulk from blocks of raw material: W. J. H.

page 289 note 1 Archaeological Journal, xci, p. 42.

page 291 note 1 Both suites of dykes are described by Greenly in ‘The Geology of Anglesey’ (Mem. Geol. Surv.), chs. xvi, xvii, xviii, xxviii, xxix.

page 291 note 2 No. 3, from the hollow near the end of the terrace (p. 270); both ends have been broken away, and it has flaked badly as a result of burning.