Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Harold's Stones, Standing Stones
Trellech United, Monmouthshire, Wales
A scheduled monument in Trellech United, Monmouthshire, recorded as Stone Alignment (Prehistoric).
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Stone Alignment
- Period
- Prehistoric
- Community
- Trellech United
- Unitary authority
- Monmouthshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 51.74274, -2.72660
- SAM number
- MM017
- Cadw record number
- 372
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 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)
- 1830 · V.3:11-15:XV.Britisches Reich. A. Kon: England. a. England ab sich: Shire:15-17, 33 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1895 · Sheet 11. Ordnance Survey of England and Wales. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1896 · 233 Monmouth (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1913 · Sheet 102. Newport. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Summary description and reason for designation
The monument comprises the remains of a stone alignment, probably dating to the Bronze Age (c.2300 BC - 800 BC).
There are 3 stones in a north-east-south-west alignment. The total distance between them is 14m. They are made of a conglomerate stone called pudding stone. The stone at the north-east end is 2.2m high, 1m wide and 0.4m thick. It leans slightly towards the north. The middle stone is 2.5m high, 0.7m wide and 0.7m thick, and leans slightly towards the west. The stone at the south-west end is the largest, being 3m high, 1m wide at the base, tapering to 0.4m at the top, and 0.7m wide. It leans considerably towards the south-east.
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 retain significant archaeological potential, with a strong probability of the presence of both intact burial and ritual deposits and environmental and structural evidence. Stone alignments 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
- West Barn at Three Stones FarmAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- East Barn at Three Stones FarmAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Barn at Court FarmAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Court FarmhouseDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.