Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Maen Bach Standing Stone
Cilycwm, Carmarthenshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Standing Stone
- Period
- Prehistoric
- Date of designation
- 4 April 2000
- Community
- Cilycwm
- Unitary authority
- Carmarthenshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 52.08939, -3.85396
- SAM number
- CM300
- Cadw record number
- 1642
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 standing stone, which probably dates to the Bronze Age (c. 2300 - 800 BC) and is one of the most prominent features of a line of prehistoric cairns and standing stones which cross the Mynydd Mallaen from north-west to south-east.
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 and measures 8m in diameter, centred on the stone.
Nearby in the register
- Mynydd Mallaen Standing StoneStanding Stoneunder 1 mi
- Crugiau Merched CairnsRound Cairnunder 1 mi
- Mynydd Mallaen Long HutRectangular hut1 mi
- Burnt Mound on Esgair FerchonBurnt Mound1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.