Bodewryd Standing Stone on Anglesey

Bodewryd Standing Stone on Anglesey.

Bodewryd Standing Stone. SH 406902

Certainly one of the tallest and mythical of Anglesey's standing stones. I didn't have any measuring tape with me but it was about double my height, and must therefore be between 11 and 12 feet tall. Stands erect in the middle of a field on the Plas Bodewryd estate.

In the welsh language the stone is known both as Carreglefn - the smooth stone, and also as Maen Pres - the brass stone. A legend says that if you cut into the ground around its shadow at a certain time of the day then you will discover treasures buried in a brass container. It is also said that if you can first find, and then read a supposed inscription on the stone, then this enormous stone will move aside to reveal the treasure.

Plas Bodewryd Standing Stone

Plas Bodewryd Standing Stone and Judge William J. Wynn of Alabama

Plas Bodewryd Standing Stone lichen covering

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