Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Dyffryn Stone Circle
Puncheston, Pembrokeshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Stone Circle
- Period
- Prehistoric
- Community
- Puncheston
- Unitary authority
- Pembrokeshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 51.92063, -4.82364
- SAM number
- PE120
- Cadw record number
- 985
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 stone circle and a cairn which probably date to the Bronze Age (c. 2300 - 800 BC) and which are located on the west valley side of the Afon Syfynwy below Bernard’s Well Mountain. The monument comprises an elliptical ring of ten orthostatic and two now prostrate standing stones surrounding a denuded round cairn c. 29m in diameter and 0.5m high. Most of the stones do not exceed 1m in height; the tallest on the eastern side is over 1.5m. Three outlying stones formerly located c 12m to the north east are no longer present.
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
- BudloyDomesticunder 1 mi
- Budloy Standing StoneStanding Stoneunder 1 mi
- Huts, Enclosures & Field Systems, Bernards Well MountainHut Circle Settlementunder 1 mi
- Defended Enclosure 400m ESE of Pen-FeidrEnclosure - Defensiveunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.