Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Pen-y-bont Standing Stone
Llanafanfawr, Powys, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Standing Stone
- Period
- Prehistoric
- Date of designation
- 24 August 1999
- Welsh name
- Maen Hir Pen-y-Bont
- Community
- Llanafanfawr
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 52.21152, -3.44582
- SAM number
- BR265
- Cadw record number
- 861
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 Monument.
The monument comprises the remains of a standing stone, which probably dates to the Bronze Age (c. 2300 - 800 BC). The stone is irregular in form, measuring 1,2m x 0.7m at its base and standing to a height of 1.75m, with a flat top. The stone stands within a hollow measuring 3.5m and is surrounded by packing stones.
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. It is circular with a diameter of 5m, centred on the stone.
Nearby in the register
- Church of All SaintsNo class recordedunder 1 mi
- Crown HotelNo class recordedunder 1 mi
- Milestone on A470No class recordedunder 1 mi
- Golden Lion public houseNo class recordedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.