Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Pentre Ifan, Standing Stone 120m SSW of
Nevern, Pembrokeshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Standing Stone
- Period
- Prehistoric
- Date of designation
- 7 November 2005
- Community
- Nevern
- Unitary authority
- Pembrokeshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 51.99788, -4.77056
- SAM number
- PE504
- Cadw record number
- 1146
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.
This large standing stone, also known as Pen Feidr Coedan, is situated on a NW facing slope in a field of permanent pasture. It probably dates to the Bronze Age (c. 2300 BC - 800 BC). It measures 2.2m high, 2.7m wide and 0.5m deep. The standing stone is earthfast and oriented N - S. It leans slightly towards the E and has a pointed top. Packing stones are visible at the base on the eastern side. Pentre Ifan is intervisible 120m away to the NNE.
The standing stone is of national importance for its potential to enhance our knowledge of prehistoric ritual practices. Such standing stones are assumed to have had some form of religious or ceremonial function. It represents a notable element in the wider prehistoric and funerary landscape. The monument retains significant archaeological potential, with a strong probability of the presence of associated archaeological features and deposits.
The area to be scheduled comprises the remains described and an area around them within which related evidence may be expected to survive. It is circular and measures 5m in diameter.
Nearby in the register
- Pentre Ifan Chambered TombChambered Tombunder 1 mi
- Enclosure in Tycanol WoodPromontory Fort - coastalunder 1 mi
- Gelli RhiwfelinDomesticunder 1 mi
- Range of outbuildings to E. of Gelli RhiwfelinAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.