Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Saith-Maen Standing Stones
Llanafanfawr, Powys, Wales
A scheduled monument in Llanafanfawr, Powys, recorded as Stone Row (Bronze Age).
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Stone Row
- Period
- Bronze Age
- Community
- Llanafanfawr
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 52.23100, -3.53980
- SAM number
- BR065
- Cadw record number
- 1727
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1608 map "(13) Cambriae Typus." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1608 · (13) Cambriae Typus. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1637 · Particular description of Wales. Cambria seu Wallia (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1883 · Watershed map England, Wales 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · 179 Rhyader (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 14. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Summary description and reason for designation
The following provides a general description of the Scheduled Ancient Monument.
The monument comprises the remains of a stone row, which probably date to the Bronze Age (c. 2300 - 800 BC). The row contains eight small stones set in a straight line, 7m long and orientated E/W. The largest of the stones is 0.61m wide and 0.51m high while the smallest is 0.1m wide and only partly visible above the turf. An excavation, undertaken in 1977, investigated the largest stone and the gap between the eastern two stones and the hollows of the excavation trenches are still visible.
The monument is of national importance for its potential to enhance our knowledge of prehistoric burial and ritual practices. The features are an important relic of a prehistoric funerary and ritual landscape and retain significant archaeological potential. There is a strong probability of the presence of both intact ritual and burial deposits, together with environmental and structural evidence. Stone rows are often part of a larger cluster of monuments and their importance can further enhanced by their group value.
The scheduled area comprises the remains described and areas around them within which related evidence may be expected to survive.
Nearby in the register
- Cairns and Standing Stones on Carnau Cefn-y-FforddRing Cairnunder 1 mi
- Three Round Cairns on y GamriwRound Cairnunder 1 mi
- Hafen standing stone pairStanding Stoneunder 1 mi
- Carn Pantmaenllwyd cairnRing Cairnunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.