Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Tŷ Mawr Standing Stone
Holyhead, Isle of Anglesey, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Standing Stone
- Period
- Prehistoric
- Welsh name
- Maen Hir Tŷ Mawr
- Community
- Holyhead
- Unitary authority
- Isle of Anglesey
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 53.29671, -4.62138
- SAM number
- AN012
- Cadw record number
- 530
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Shown on 5 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1799 "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Summary description and reason for designation
The following provides a general description of the Scheduled Monument.
The monument comprises the remains of a standing stone, which probably dates to the Bronze Age. The standing stone is 2.5 m high, 1.5 m wide at the base and 0.4 m thick. It stands on a local high point, in a gently undulating field 640 m NW of Trefignath burial chamber. The views are good all round, but especially good of Holyhead Mountain.
The monument is of national importance for its potential to enhance our knowledge of prehistoric burial and ritual practices. It is an important relic of a prehistoric funerary and ritual landscape and retains significant archaeological potential. There is a strong probability of the presence of intact burial or ritual deposits, together with environmental and structural evidence. The standing stone is part of a larger cluster of prehistoric monuments and its importance is further enhanced by this group value.
The scheduled area comprises a circular area centred on the stone measuring 6m in diameter, within which related evidence may be expected to survive.
Nearby in the register
- Bridge Over Railway near Ty Mawr FarmhouseTransportunder 1 mi
- Ebenezer ChapelReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Kingsland WindmillIndustrialunder 1 mi
- Stanley CottagesDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.