Name: | Arfryn | CISP No: | ARFYN |
Place: | Arfryn | Grid Ref: | SH 8000 3300 (GB) |
Parish: | Bodedern | Stones: | 1 |
County: | Anglesey (Môn) , Wales | Saint(s): | none |
Site Type: | cemetery |
White/1971-72, 19--51. The stone was found re-used as part of a grave within a long-cist cemetery. This cemetery had graves oriented both N-S and E-W, and is dated to between the fifth and sixth century. Two or three of the graves had post-holes at the head of the grave suggesting the erection of grave markers, probably of wood.
In 1732 Lewis Morris noted that at Arfryn, 'There is an ancient burying place lately discovered in this parich abt 1/2 a mile of ye church and stone coffins dug up with their heads to the south: In a place called pen Eglwys Edern: al. pen Eglwys Leder where there is also a stone called llex Edern'. Quoted in White/1971-72, 30.
White/1971-72, 40--41, argues that the central feature of the cemetery was `a floor of small pebbles ... surrounded by a ring of stakes' associated with a burial, the final phase of which `seems to have been a small wooden chapel or oratory'.
Edwards/1986, 31--34, argues that the central feature of the cemetery was a small wooden chapel erected over a grave.