HistoryHidden gem
Bryn Celli Ddu
Llanddaniel Fab, Wales
Neolithic passage tomb on Anglesey that lights up at midsummer sunrise.
- Cost
- Free
- Booking
- No need to book
- Time to allow
- 30 min
A grassy mound hides a 5,000-year-old burial chamber that you can crawl into via a short passage. At sunrise on the summer solstice light shines down the passage to the chamber. The rest of the year it is a quiet stop a few minutes' walk from a lay-by.
Good to know
- Path can be muddy or slippery
- Entry is free
- Solstice sunrise gatherings are very busy
- Best time
- Midsummer sunrise, or a quiet weekday
- Open
- All year, daylight hours
- Getting there
- Lay-by opposite the footpath; short walk
- Vehicles
- Fine in any car
- Dogs
- Dogs welcome
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