The Llwydiarth Esgob Stone

On April 18, 2011, in Archaeology, Discoveries, News, by Michael

The Anglesey Rock Art Project recently extended their programme to include excavation and recording of megalithic rock art on a stone at Llwydiarth Esgob Farm. The stone, made from a distinctive localised hornblende picrite, stands within the garden of the farmhouse and was moved there by the noted antiquary Thomas Pritchard at the beginning of the 20th century.

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SHOOT DIARY – Bryn Celli Ddu

On July 15, 2008, in Shoot Diary, by Michael

Rupert and the Fossil Tree TrunkAnglesey, 23rd October, 2006

Inside the chamber at Bryn Celli Ddu – Rupert looking a bit stunned after realising that the pillar in the middle is a fossilised tree trunk.
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Believe us, we tried very hard to see it as something else, but once recognised as bark textures, the surface of this monolith looks like very little else.

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