Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Ffairfach standing stone
Cyngor Bro Dyffryn Cennen, Carmarthenshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Standing Stone
- Period
- Prehistoric
- Date of designation
- 17 February 2005
- Community
- Cyngor Bro Dyffryn Cennen
- Unitary authority
- Carmarthenshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 51.87600, -3.99678
- SAM number
- CM325
- Cadw record number
- 4103
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 an impressive standing stone, probably dating to the Bronze Age (c.2300 BC - 800 BC). It is a large block of stone, standing 1.6m in height and measuring 0.9m in thickness and 0.7m in width.
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 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 6m in diameter.
Nearby in the register
- Tregib ArmsCommercialunder 1 mi
- Cawdor FarmhouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Capel TabernaclReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Llandeilo Bridge (including causeways) (partly in Llandeilo community)Transportunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.