Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Cornel-Bach Standing Stones
Maenclochog, Pembrokeshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Standing Stone
- Period
- Prehistoric
- Date of designation
- 18 June 1952
- Community
- Maenclochog
- Unitary authority
- Pembrokeshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 51.91717, -4.79092
- SAM number
- PE286
- Cadw record number
- 3065
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 two standing stones, which probably dates to the Bronze Age (c. 2300 - 800 BC) and are located 40yds apart. The south-western stone is a boulder measuring 6ft high by 4 1/2 ft. The north-east stone is located within the field boundary and measures 6ft high by 3ft by 2ft.
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
- Church of Saint MaryReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Inscribed Stones outside Ruined Church of St Teilo (now in Maenclochog Church).Cross-marked stoneunder 1 mi
- Galchen-Fach StoneStanding Stoneunder 1 mi
- The Castle HotelCommercialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.