Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Ceffig Caerau Stone Circle
Llanbrynmair, Powys, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Stone Circle
- Period
- Prehistoric
- Community
- Llanbrynmair
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 52.59122, -3.62107
- SAM number
- MG066
- Cadw record number
- 1993
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 monument.
The monument comprises the remains of a stone circle, which probably date to the Bronze Age (c. 2300 - 800 BC). The circle comprises 8 recumbent stones lying in animal-worn hollows on unimproved moorland. The stones are unevenly spaced and each measures between 1.2m - 2.0m.
The monument is of national importance for its potential to enhance our knowledge of prehistoric burial and ritual practices. The features are an important relic of a prehistoric funerary and ritual landscape and retain significant archaeological potential. There is a strong probability of the presence of both intact ritual and burial deposits, together with environmental and structural evidence. Stone circles 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
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- DiosgDomesticunder 1 mi
- Milestone at the N end of Dol-fachTransportunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.