The area around Llangollen has been occupied since very early times. Before 6000BC any human presence would have been in the form of small bands of hunters. After this time it is known that Neolithic farmers, originating from Europe, were present in North Wales, although it is only after 3000BC that we have any direct evidence of their presence in this area, in the form of many tumuli, cairns, stone circles and standing stones.
A tumulus on top of Creigiau Eglwyseg (see aerial image above and photograph below) was found to contain fragments of the cremation of a human body, part of the shoulder blade of an ox (unburnt) and fragments of the ribs of a sheep (unburnt) when it was opened in the 1890s.
A cairn near Aber Sychnant, 1½ miles to the north of World’s End, was also opened in 1890. It was found to contain some ashes, a horses tooth, some small bones and a flint arrowhead.
A worked flint, found in the garden at Llwyn Palis on Abbey Road, plus a possible Mesolithic hand axe, discovered to the south of Llangollen, indicate possible presence in the area up to 7,000 years ago.
