Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Bryn-y-Rhyd Standing Stone
Llanedi, Carmarthenshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Standing Stone
- Period
- Prehistoric
- Date of designation
- 6 February 1961
- Community
- Llanedi
- Unitary authority
- Carmarthenshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 51.75610, -4.04671
- SAM number
- CM193
- Cadw record number
- 2806
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 1860 "41. Caermathen." (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 of a very large unshaped standing stone located in the middle of an enclosed field towards the bottom of a SE facing slope on a terrace overlooking a watercourse. The stone measures c. 2.45m tall, 2.1m wide and 0.5m thick. It is aligned E-W. The stone is earthfast. It is roughly rectangular in shape on plan and in section. It rises to a flat top with a slight central point. The surface of the stone is notable for its distinctive layering.
The standing stone is thought to be of religious or ceremonial significance and to date to the Bronze Age (c. 2300 BC - 800 BC). The monument is likely to retain significant archaeological deposits and enhance our knowledge of prehistoric ritual practices. The scheduling has been revised as the original scheduled area was marked with a 'X' on the paper map. The entry required modernisation to make it compatible with Cadw's GIS.
The area scheduled comprises the remains described and an area around them within which related evidence may be expected to survive. It is circular and measures 10m in diameter.
Nearby in the register
- Plas-Newydd MillCommercialunder 1 mi
- Church of Saint EdiReligious, Ritual and Funerary1 mi
- Circular Pigsty at BryngelliAgriculture and Subsistence1 mi
- Plas Mawr (formerly known as Cwrt y Ceidrim)Domestic2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.