Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Bedd Morris Standing Stone
Cwm Gwaun, Pembrokeshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Standing Stone
- Period
- Prehistoric
- Date of designation
- 28 November 1962
- Community
- Cwm Gwaun
- Unitary authority
- Pembrokeshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 51.99221, -4.85879
- SAM number
- PE361
- Cadw record number
- 3713
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 1608 "(13) Cambriae Typus." (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 dates to the Bronze Age (c. 2300 - 800 BC) and stands at the highest point of an ancient route, now a minor road across Carningle Common. The standing stone measures 2.2m in height, and is is 0.9m wide by 0.45m deep at the base. Small-scale excavation in 2012 provided Bronze Age radiocarbon dates and recovered several hammer stones together with stone flakes from dressing the stone.
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
- Mynnydd Caregog Hut CircleUnenclosed hut circleunder 1 mi
- Huts on Mynydd MelynUnenclosed hut circleunder 1 mi
- The Hermitage at Ffald y Brenin Christian Retreat CentreNo class recordedunder 1 mi
- Carn Ffoi Prehistoric SettlementHut Circle Settlementunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.