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Maen Llwyd standing stone/boulder

Primary Reference Number (PRN) : 100741
Trust : Clwyd Powys
Community : Clocaenog
Unitary authority : Denbighshire
NGR : SJ04805237
Site Type (preferred type first) : BRONZE AGE STANDING STONE
Status : scheduled monument

Description :
An irregular shaped boulder 1.5m high now covered by trees. Assumed moved or destroyed.

Scheduling revised in December 1999. Previously scheduled as part of Bryn Beddau round barrows (De040), but now scheduled as separate monument (Cadw, 1999).

The boulder is massive, and is probably recumbent. Dimensions 3.25m long, 2.3m wide, 1.45m high (recumbent dimensions) The longest axis is aligned E-W. Stone is grey in colour.The E end is becoming overgrown with tussock grass but W end (the thick end) is clear. stone stands in a clear area surrounded mainly by birch trees (CPAT 2002)

Sources :
Anon , 2013 , Cultural Heritage Assessment. Land adjacent to Clocaenog Forest, Denbighshire, North Wales ( © Savills)
Cadw , 1999 , Scheduling map - De255(DEN)
Cadw , 2000 , Cadw Field Monument Wardens Report - De255(DEN)
Cambrian Archaeological Projects , 1998 , Forest Enterprise Welsh Heritage Assets Project, Archaeological Survey Phase III, Contract 6, Clocaenog/Cynwyd/Ceiriog/Mathrafal/Ceri
Clwyd Powys Archaeological Trust , 2002 , CPAT Project Archive - 715
Clwyd Powys Archaeological Trust , 2002 , Site visit record - PRN 100741 ( © Clwyd Powys Archaeological Trust)
Jones, N W , 2003 , Prehistoric Funerary and Ritual Sites: Denbighshire and East Conwy: Revised Project Report ( © Clwyd Powys Archaeological Trust)
Ordnance Survey , 1963 , OS record card SJ 05 SW 11
Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales , 1914 , Inventory of the Ancient Monuments in Wales and Monmouthshire - IV County of Denbigh

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Related records
CPAT Historic Environment Record (HER) 23170

Compiled date : 31-12-1980


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March 30, 2025, 4:22 pm - File produced for Archwilio from CPAT's Regional HER.
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