Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Standing Stone E of Llangoed Wood
Bronllys, Powys, Wales
A scheduled monument in Bronllys, Powys, recorded as Standing Stone (Prehistoric).
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Standing Stone
- Period
- Prehistoric
- Community
- Bronllys
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 52.04764, -3.28039
- SAM number
- BR086
- Cadw record number
- 1738
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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)
- 1636 · Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ... (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1856 · 42. Brecon. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1896 · 214 Talgarth (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 standing stone, which probably dates to the Bronze Age (c. 2300 - 800 BC). The standing stone lies in the centre of a field on the western bank of river Wye. It is sandstone, 2.3m high, 0.8m wide and 0.5m thick, and leans towards the SW. The stone is roughly straight sided and there are some packing stones visible around the base on the SW side.
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. Standing stones 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
- Boughrood CourtDomesticunder 1 mi
- Boughrood CottageAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Llangoed HallDomesticunder 1 mi
- Gatepiers at Llangoed HallDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.