Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Maen Richard Prehistoric Standing Stone
Trallong, Powys, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Standing Stone
- Period
- Prehistoric
- Date of designation
- 8 February 2000
- Community
- Trallong
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 52.00090, -3.50548
- SAM number
- BR270
- Cadw record number
- 1596
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) and is located between the parishes of Llanfihangel Nant Bran and Merthyr Cynog on the Middle Eppynt Common. The stone is a volcanic agglomerate measuring 0.81m by 0.45m and stands to a height of 1.52m.
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 a circle with a diameter of 5m, centred on the stone.
Nearby in the register
- Corn y Fan CampHillfort1 mi
- Church of St MichaelReligious, Ritual and Funerary1 mi
- Bethel Calvinistic Methodist ChapelReligious, Ritual and Funerary2 mi
- L-plan outbuilding at Ty'rberllanAgriculture and Subsistence2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.