Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Cefn Llanerchi Standing Stones
Rhayader, Powys, Wales
A scheduled monument in Rhayader, Powys, recorded as Stone Alignment (Prehistoric).
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Stone Alignment
- Period
- Prehistoric
- Date of designation
- 31 October 2002
- Community
- Rhayader
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 52.25869, -3.61539
- SAM number
- RD198
- Cadw record number
- 3921
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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)
- 1830 · V.3:11-15:XV. Britisches Reich. A. Kon: England. b. Frstenthum Wales: Shire: 37-40 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1883 · Watershed map England, Wales 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · 179 Rhyader (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 Monument.
The monument comprises the remains of a stone alignment, probably dating to the Bronze Age (c.2300 BC - 800 BC). There are two stones which once stood upright and are associated with the Rhos y Gelynnen stone row and ring cairn to the south-east. The northern stone (I) is some 0.6m by 0.3m at the base and is 2.3m long, tapering to a wedge at the apex. Stone II, which has fallen and lies partly buried, is some 3.70m long and 0.5m wide.
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 retain significant archaeological potential, with a strong probability of the presence of both intact burial and ritual deposits and environmental and structural evidence. Stone alignments 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. It is a rectangle and measures 8m x 6m, aligned N-S.
Nearby in the register
- Rhos y Gelynnen Stone RowStone Rowunder 1 mi
- Rhos y Gelynnen Ring CairnRing Cairnunder 1 mi
- Carreg Ddu Viaduct and Submerged DamTransportunder 1 mi
- Foel Valve TowerWater Supply and Drainageunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.