Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Nant y Gledrydd Standing Stone
Tudweiliog, Gwynedd, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Standing Stone
- Period
- Prehistoric
- Date of designation
- 27 June 2005
- Community
- Tudweiliog
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 52.89874, -4.53888
- SAM number
- CN395
- Cadw record number
- 1
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 a fine standing stone, probably dating to the Bronze Age (c.2300 BC - 800 BC) and situated within enclosed improved pasture on a local summit above and to the to the NE of the valley of Nant y Gledrydd. The standing stone measures 2.2m in height, 0.8m in thickness from E to W by about 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 5m in diameter.
Nearby in the register
- Efail Gledrydd ForgeIndustrialunder 1 mi
- Efail GledryddDomesticunder 1 mi
- Madryn Castle GatehouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Meillionen FarmhouseDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.