Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Tyddyn Mawr, standing stone to SSW of
Llanaelhaearn, Gwynedd, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Standing Stone
- Period
- Prehistoric
- Date of designation
- 25 February 2005
- Community
- Llanaelhaearn
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 52.97429, -4.33834
- SAM number
- CN384
- Cadw record number
- 4165
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 1795 "To Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn Bart ... the map of the six counties of North Wales is most humbly inscribed by his obedient humble servant" (Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of Wales).
Cadw's description
Summary description and reason for designation
The following provides a general description of the Scheduled Monument.
The monument comprises a fine standing stone, probably dating to the Bronze Age (c.2300 BC - 800 BC). It is situated within enclosed pasture about 300m to the SSW of Tyddyn Mawr. The standing stone measures 1.8m in height, 0.8m in thickness from NE to SW by 0.7m in width. Several packing stones are visible around its base.
The monument is of national importance for its potential to enhance our knowledge of prehistoric ritual practices. The monument is well preserved and is an important relic of a prehistoric funerary and ritual landscape. It retains significant archaeological potential, with a strong probability of the presence of associated archaeological features and deposits.
The scheduled area 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
- Store and Mill at Ysgubor-fawrAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Ysgubor-fawr old farmhouse, with front garden wallsDomesticunder 1 mi
- Cowhouse at Ysgubor-fawrAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Hut Group & Field System North West of Tyddyn Mawr (previously known as Hut Group NW of Tyddyn Mawr)Unenclosed hut circleunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.