Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Cwm-Maerdy Standing Stone
Glascwm, Powys, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Standing Stone
- Period
- Prehistoric
- Community
- Glascwm
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 52.22065, -3.25739
- SAM number
- RD113
- Cadw record number
- 502
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 Monument.
The monument comprises a standing stone, which probably dates to the Bronze Age (c. 2300 - 800 BC). The Cwm-Maerdy Standing Stone is sited on the crest of a low rounded hill and is almost square at the base, measuring c.0.87m by c.0.7m, but tapers to a rough point at the top. It leans at an angle of 80 degrees towards the west and is now c.1.47m high.
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 Fedw Stone Circle 360m W of Llanboidy WoodStone Circleunder 1 mi
- Graig CampHillfortunder 1 mi
- Nant Brook EnclosureEnclosureunder 1 mi
- Llannerch cup-marked rockCup Marked Stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.