Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Pant Serthfa stone row
Llangynidr, Powys, Wales
A scheduled monument in Llangynidr, Powys, recorded as Stone Row (Prehistoric).
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Stone Row
- Period
- Prehistoric
- Date of designation
- 18 January 2007
- Community
- Llangynidr
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 51.84221, -3.28096
- SAM number
- BR374
- Cadw record number
- 4305
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1636 map "Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ..." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1636 · Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ... (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1856 · 42. Brecon. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · 232 Abergavenny (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · 232 Abergavenny (Outline) (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 stone row, situated upon the leading edge of the Pant Serthfa terrace, below the crags of Clo Cadno and overlooking the Dyffryn Crawnon in the Eastern Brecon Beacons. The row measures c. 3.2m in length and comprises four stones aligned from N to S: three are upright or recumbent slabs, while that to the N is a large limestone boulder.
The monument is of national importance for its potential to enhance our knowledge of prehistoric burial and ritual practices. The row may have served to guide the eye or the ceremonial procession - it is an important relic of a prehistoric funerary and ritual landscape and retains significant archaeological potential, with a strong probability of the presence of both intact ritual deposits and environmental and structural evidence. The importance of the monument is further enhanced by the topographical association of the row with the many other cairns and cemeteries that can be found within the surrounding area, including the two massive round cairns on Carn Caws (BR355 and BR356) and the contemporary ritual complex at Carreg Wen Fawr y Rhos (BR354).
The scheduled area comprises the remains described and an area around them within which related evidence may be expected to survive. It is circular and measures 15m in diameter.
Nearby in the register
- Pant Serthfa round cairnRound Cairnunder 1 mi
- Clo Cadno platform cairnPlatform Cairnunder 1 mi
- Carn Caws round cairnRound Cairnunder 1 mi
- Carn Caws, round cairn to N ofRound Cairnunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.