Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Bryn yr Aran Stone Setting
Carno, Powys, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Stone Setting
- Period
- Prehistoric
- Date of designation
- 26 June 2002
- Community
- Carno
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 52.54812, -3.57204
- SAM number
- MG296
- Cadw record number
- 1368
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 consists of a stone setting, an arrangement of one or more standing stones where the original form of monument unclear, dating to the Late Neolithic or Early Bronze Age. It measures 30m x 7m and is comprised of five edge-set stones 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 settings 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 square and measures 35m square.
Nearby in the register
- Bryn yr Aran Ring Cairn and Ritual PlatformRing Cairnunder 1 mi
- Esgair Draenllwyn Stone SettingStone Settingunder 1 mi
- Esgair Draenllwyn Round Cairn IIRound Cairnunder 1 mi
- Blaen y Cwm Round CairnsRound Cairnunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.