Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Standing Stone 400m ENE of Four Stones
Old Radnor, Powys, Wales
A scheduled monument in Old Radnor, Powys, recorded as Standing Stone (Prehistoric).
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Standing Stone
- Period
- Prehistoric
- Community
- Old Radnor
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 52.24141, -3.10108
- SAM number
- RD064
- Cadw record number
- 1930
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1608 map "(13) Cambriae Typus." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1608 · (13) Cambriae Typus. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1637 · Particular description of Wales. Cambria seu Wallia (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1883 · Watershed map England, Wales 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1899 · 180 Knighton (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 14. (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). This low, possibly recumbent, stone measures c.1.65m east-west by c.1.1m, and reaches a maximum of c.1m high on the east. It may originally have been an erratic, but does appear to form part of an alignment running from the Four Stones (Scheduled Ancient Monument RD004) eastwards towards Burfa Bank.
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
- The Four StonesStone Settingunder 1 mi
- Hindwell Farm Round BarrowsRound Barrowunder 1 mi
- Hindwell palisaded enclosurePalisaded Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Hindwell FarmhouseDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.