Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Sampson Cross Standing Stone
Stackpole and Castlemartin, Pembrokeshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Standing Stone
- Period
- Prehistoric
- Date of designation
- 15 March 1960
- Community
- Stackpole and Castlemartin
- Unitary authority
- Pembrokeshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 51.62925, -4.94558
- SAM number
- PE345
- Cadw record number
- 2069
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 standing stone, which probably dates to the Bronze Age (c. 2300 - 800 BC) and is situated onground that slopes gently to the north-east. The stone measures 5ft 6ins x 4ft x 2ft facing north-west and has a smooth and rounded back with cup marks.
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
- Sampson FarmhouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Liserry FarmhouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Stackpole Farm Standing StoneStanding Stoneunder 1 mi
- Horse Trough at Coldwell WoodWater Supply and Drainageunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.