Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Ty'n-y-Cellar Standing Stone
Margam, Neath Port Talbot, Wales
A scheduled monument in Margam, Neath Port Talbot, recorded as Standing Stone (Prehistoric).
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Standing Stone
- Period
- Prehistoric
- Community
- Margam
- Unitary authority
- Neath Port Talbot
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 51.53982, -3.72821
- SAM number
- GM179
- Cadw record number
- 2256
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1636 map "Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ..." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1636 · Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ... (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1637 · The fourth table of England. Cornub. Devonia, Somerset etc. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1865 · England and Wales. England No. 6. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1907 · 248 Pontypridd (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1930 · OS Popular Edition 1919-1947 (National Library of Scotland)
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). The stone is an undressed boulder of approximately rectangular section. It measures 1.4m long by 0.9m at the base, increasing to 1.6m long at a height of 0.7m. The top slopes from 2.5m high at the south east to 2.1m at the north west.
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.
Nearby in the register
- Former Cow-house at Ty'n y CellarAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Cart Shed, Stable and Cow-House at Ty'n y CellarAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Granary at Ty'n y CellarAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Ty'n y Cellar and adjoining BarnDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.