Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Garreg Wen Standing Stone
Cynwyl Elfed, Carmarthenshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Standing Stone
- Period
- Prehistoric
- Date of designation
- 19 February 2003
- Community
- Cynwyl Elfed
- Unitary authority
- Carmarthenshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 51.95256, -4.42940
- SAM number
- CM314
- Cadw record number
- 3990
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 Monument.
The monument comprises a standing stone, probably dating to the Early Bronze Age (c.2300 BC - 1200 BC). It is a large, angular quartzite stone, standing 1.9m in height and measuring 1.45m in thickness and 0.7m in width. The stone is orientated from ENE to WSW, with the larger sides facing NNE and SSW respectively. It is situated in improved pasture on a rounded ENE-facing slope above the Afon Fawr.
The monument is of national importance for its potential to enhance our knowledge of prehistoric ritual practices. The monument retains significant archaeological potential with a strong probability of associated archaeological features and deposits and forms an important element in the wider prehistoric funerary and ritual landscape.
The scheduled area comprises the remains described and an area around it within which related evidence may be expected to survive. It is circular and measures 5m in diameter.
Nearby in the register
- Capel Bryn EvanReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Crug Ieuan Round BarrowRound Barrow1 mi
- Rhydfelen and Y GangellDomestic1 mi
- WaunyrhafodDomestic2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.