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Bryn Celli Ddu

Llanddaniel Fab, Anglesey

A tomb that fills with sunlight at dawn on midsummer's day.

Bryn Celli Ddu, the mound in the dark grove, is a passage tomb built over an older stone circle. In 2005 it was confirmed that on the summer solstice, the rising sun shines straight down the passage and lights up the inner chamber.

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When
c. 3000 BC
Where
53.2077, -4.2357
Group
Circles & monuments

Visiting

Cadw, free. A short farm-track walk from the lane.

Cover of The Ledger of Lost Britain by Cale Mills
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The Ledger of Lost Britain

The Romans arrived in AD 43. For most people that is where the history of Britain begins. But by the time the legions landed, people had already been living on these islands for thousands of years. They had hunted, farmed, mined flint, dragged stones across the country, raised a hill by hand, and buried their dead in great tombs. They left no written words. What they left was the ground itself. Every place in this book can be visited, or has been dug up, or is in a museum.

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