Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Begwns standing stone
Painscastle, Powys, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Standing Stone
- Period
- Prehistoric
- Date of designation
- 22 September 2004
- Community
- Painscastle
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 52.09664, -3.23891
- SAM number
- RD244
- Cadw record number
- 4141
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
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 fine standing stone, probably dating to the Bronze Age (c.2300 BC - 800 BC). It is a large, split block of stone, standing about 1.2m in height and measuring 1.2m in thickness and 0.4m in width. The standing stone is situated below the summit of a knoll in disturbed upland pasture.
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 8m in diameter.
Nearby in the register
- Begwns round cairnRound Cairnunder 1 mi
- Cwm FarmhouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- U-Plan Outbuilding Range to W of Cwm FarmhouseAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Church of St DavidReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.