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Maen Beuno

Standing Stone / Menhir

<b>Maen Beuno</b>Posted by bazaImage © baza
Nearest Town:Montgomery (5km SSE)
OS Ref (GB):   SJ203013 / Sheet: 126
Latitude:52° 36' 11.54" N
Longitude:   3° 10' 37.09" W

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Photographs:<b>Maen Beuno</b>Posted by baza Artistic / Interpretive:<b>Maen Beuno</b>Posted by Rhiannon

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If you drive down Dyffryn lane you`ll see this stone standing by the road-side. It`s nearly five feet tall and leans to the north-east.

Maen Beuno could well be an outlier to the Dyffryn Lane henge which is about 100 metres further on down the lane, in a field on the other side of the road.
baza Posted by baza
26th August 2003ce

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About a mile east of Berriew, on the green by the side of a lane, is a stone about five feet high, called, on the Ordnance Map, Maen Beuno, but by the people in the neighbourhood "the Bynion Stone." A man who told me (in 1891) that he was fifty years of age, said he had been told by old men when he was a boy that it was intended to have built a church on the spot where the Bynion Stone stands, but that every night the stones which had been placed in position were carried away and put down on the spot where Berriew Church now stands. (1891.)
Scraps of Folklore Collected by John Philipps Emslie
C. S. Burne
Folklore, Vol. 26, No. 2. (Jun. 30, 1915), pp. 153-170.
Rhiannon Posted by Rhiannon
1st October 2006ce

Maen Beuno is named after St. Beuno, who lived nearby in the 6th c.AD and is said to have preached from this spot. baza Posted by baza
26th August 2003ce