Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Carreg Lwyd Ritual Complex
Carno, Powys, Wales
A scheduled monument in Carno, Powys, recorded as Stone Row (Prehistoric).
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Stone Row
- Period
- Prehistoric
- Date of designation
- 27 December 2001
- Community
- Carno
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 52.54881, -3.59510
- SAM number
- MG291
- Cadw record number
- 3861
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1608 map "(13) Cambriae Typus." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1608 · (13) Cambriae Typus. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1795 · To Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn Bart ... the map of the six counties of North Wales is most… (Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of Wales)
- 1883 · Watershed map England, Wales 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1899 · 164 Llanidloes (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 14. (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 the remains of a stone row, which probably date to the Bronze Age (c. 2300 - 800 BC). The stone row is aligned NW-SE and is a double row, measuring 30m long and spaced 1m apart. There are also a pair of conjoined kerb cairns (cairn I 6m diameter by 0.5m high and cairn II 5m diameter by 0.5m high) and a large ring cairn (8m in diameter and 0.5m high).
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 rows 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. It is a triangle and measures 150m x 130m x 180m.
Nearby in the register
- Twr Gwyn Mawr Round CairnRound Cairnunder 1 mi
- Blaen y Cwm Round CairnsRound Cairnunder 1 mi
- Esgair Draenllwyn Stone SettingStone Settingunder 1 mi
- Bryn yr Aran Ring Cairn and Ritual PlatformRing Cairnunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.