Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Mynydd Myddfai Standing Stones
Myddfai, Carmarthenshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Standing Stone
- Period
- Prehistoric
- Community
- Myddfai
- Unitary authority
- Carmarthenshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 51.94113, -3.73711
- SAM number
- CM041
- Cadw record number
- 2753
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 the remains of a pair of standing stones. The south west stone measures 1.6m high, 2.5m wide and 0.7m deep. It is earthfast and has an irregular profile rising to a pointed top. The north east stone measures 2.2m high, 1.1m wide and 0.1m deep, it is earthfast, a flat slab aligned in the same direction as the other.
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
- Mynydd Myddfai round cairnRound Cairnunder 1 mi
- Mynydd Myddfai round barrowRound Barrowunder 1 mi
- Mynydd Myddfai, ring cairns on W end ofRing Cairnunder 1 mi
- Tomen y Rhos round cairnRound Cairnunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.