Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Fennifach Standing Stone
Yscir, Powys, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Standing Stone
- Period
- Prehistoric
- Date of designation
- 13 December 1984
- Community
- Yscir
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 51.96140, -3.43172
- SAM number
- BR189
- Cadw record number
- 1806
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 5 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1608 "(13) Cambriae Typus." (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 a standing stone, which probably dates to the Bronze Age (c. 2300 - 800 BC). The stone is 2m high, 1.5m broad and 0.3-0.4m wide and roughly trapezoidal in shape. It stands in an area of overgrown scrub between an old roadway and a railway embankment.
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
- The Old SmithyDomesticunder 1 mi
- Telephone Call-box in CradocCommunicationsunder 1 mi
- Coed Fenni-Fach CampHillfortunder 1 mi
- Penoyre HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.