Bodewryd Standing Stone - an ancient monument on the island of Anglesey

Bodewryd Standing Stone - an ancient monument on the island of Anglesey.

Bodewryd Standing Stone. SH 406902

Plas Bodewryd Standing Stone and Bill Wynn of Alabama

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.

This ancient monument on Anglesey was almost impossible to see although it is only a few metres from the road, this is because of the dense hedges that surround it.

Anglesey, Ancient Monument, Bodewryd Standing Stone - and tall and proud it is

Anglesey, Ancient Monument, Bodewryd Standing Stone - showing part of the hedge that hide it from the view of the road

Anglesey, Ancient Monument, Bodewryd Standing Stone showing lichen growth

Anglesey, Ancient Monument, Bodewryd Standing Stone showing the field location

Plas Bodewryd Standing Stone - after some rain

Plas Bodewryd Standing Stone and the webmaster

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