Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Ffrwd standing stone
Penybont, Powys, Wales
A scheduled monument in Penybont, Powys, recorded as Standing Stone (Prehistoric).
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Standing Stone
- Period
- Prehistoric
- Date of designation
- 10 November 2004
- Community
- Penybont
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 52.23001, -3.33315
- SAM number
- RD238
- Cadw record number
- 4136
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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)
- 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)
- 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 a standing stone, probably dating to the Bronze Age (c.2300 BC - 800 BC). It is a large block of stone, standing about 0.9m in height and measuring 0.8m in thickness and 0.7m in width. The standing stone is situated in enclosed rough grazing on a slight saddle in between two knolls on the Careg-wiber Bank. A large boggy pond is situated nearby, to the W of the standing stone.
The monument is of national importance for its potential to enhance our knowledge of prehistoric ritual practices. The monument retains significant archaeological potential with a strong probability of associated archaeological features and deposits and forms an important element in the wider prehistoric funerary and ritual landscape.
The area scheduled comprises the remains described and an area around them within which related evidence may be expected to survive. It is circular and measures 12m in diameter.
Nearby in the register
- Cwmbrith Round CairnRound Cairnunder 1 mi
- Carreg-Wiber Bank EarthworkEarthwork (unclassified)under 1 mi
- Bank House Medieval SettlementDeserted Rural Settlementunder 1 mi
- Pawl Hir Ring CairnRing Cairnunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.