Qualla: Din Dryfol https://qualla.com/din-dryfol en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:13 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/k/y/din-dryfol-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Din Dryfol https://qualla.com/din-dryfol Din Dryfol: Introduction https://qualla.com/din-dryfol/ Photo credit Eric Jones, CC BY-SA 2.0. If you find Din Dryfol on a quiet weekday afternoon, you will probably have it entirely to yourself. The chambered tomb sits on a small platform on the flank of a low hill in central Anglesey, near the farmland edge of Aberffraw parish, with no car park and no signage to speak of. What greets you is one big capstone that slipped sideways centuries ago and now leans against the side stones it once roofed, plus a single huge portal stone standing three metres tall some distance away, like a punctuation mark in the grass. It is the patient, undramatic kind of prehistory that survives precisely because nobody made it famous.

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/k/y/din-dryfol-wp/gcky-din-dryfol-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Din Dryfol: Built in Three Acts https://qualla.com/din-dryfol/ Photo credit Ray West, CC BY-SA 2.0. Din Dryfol is not a single monument but a sequence. Excavations in 1969-70 and again in 1980, conducted by the archaeologist Frances Lynch, identified three successive chambers built along a northeast-southwest axis. The first chamber - the one that is still partly visible - was ...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/k/y/din-dryfol-wp/gcky-din-dryfol-built-in-three-acts.mp3 0:06 2 full Din Dryfol: An Irish Idea on a Welsh Hill https://qualla.com/din-dryfol/ Photo credit Eric Jones, CC BY-SA 2.0. Passage graves of the Din Dryfol type are more common in Ireland than in Wales. The tradition reached Anglesey by sea, brought by communities who maintained ties along the Atlantic coast through the fourth and third millennia BC. The first phase of the tomb was probably construct...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/k/y/din-dryfol-wp/gcky-din-dryfol-pottery-and-pyre.mp3 0:06 4 full Din Dryfol: The Quiet Cadw Tomb https://qualla.com/din-dryfol/ Photo credit Talsarnau Times, CC BY-SA 3.0. Din Dryfol is a scheduled monument in the care of Cadw, but it is not on the usual tourist circuit. There is no on-site interpretation, no entry charge, no opening hours. You walk in from a quiet lane, cross a stile, and find the tomb where it has always been. The lack of fuss is...

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