Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Standing Stone near Traeth Bach
Maescar, Powys, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Standing Stone
- Period
- Prehistoric
- Date of designation
- 30 October 1996
- Community
- Maescar
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 51.91728, -3.50798
- SAM number
- BR226
- Cadw record number
- 3460
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 1636 "Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ..." (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 stone is 1m high and measures 70cm by 70cm at its base. It is made from old red sandstone but has no signs of tooling on the worn sides. The top is irregular and may have been damaged and the base has a worn area all around it, caused by sheep poaching and weathering. There are a number of stone packers around the base. It is situated in open unimproved moorland.
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
- Two Cairns on Traeth MawrCairnunder 1 mi
- Roman Road on Mynydd Illtyd, south-western sectionRoadunder 1 mi
- Cwm Camlais CastleMotteunder 1 mi
- No. 5 Forest Lodge CottagesDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.