Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Waun Lwyd Standing Stones
Mynachlog-Ddu, Pembrokeshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Standing Stone
- Period
- Prehistoric
- Community
- Mynachlog-Ddu
- Unitary authority
- Pembrokeshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 51.94926, -4.68198
- SAM number
- PE116
- Cadw record number
- 474
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 1636 "Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ..." (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 pair of standing stones, which probably date to the Bronze Age (c. 2300 - 800 BC). The north eastern stone measures 2.m high, is 1m wide by 0.5m deep at the base and tapers to a sharp point. The south western stone measures 2.3 m high, is 0.8m square at the base tapering only towards the top. The stones are c 8m apart and set so that their flat faces share the same general alignment.
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
- Standing Stone 600m E of Dolau-NewyddStanding Stoneunder 1 mi
- Schoolroom at Bethel Baptist ChapelReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Bethel ChapelReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Mountain Burial ChamberChambered Tomb1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.