Miscellaneous

Rhos y Clegyrn
Standing Stone / Menhir

The National Monument Record (available through Coflein) gives the following description of this stone:

A standing stone c.2.7m high. Excavation, 1962-68(?), indicated that the stone had been one of a pair, 10m apart, with a stony area, c.15m by 15m, containing a BA cremation, to the N. This BA ritual complex overlies a possible Neolithic settlement (Dat Prn2019). RC dating indicates that some features of the site may be recent.

In the book Saints and Stones (ISBN 1-84323-124-7) Davies and Eastham describe the stone as, “standing 2.7 metres high in gorse”. They also allude to a second stone hole to the north east, revealed by excavation in the 1960s.

A cobbled pavement was discovered to have been laid discontinuously around and to the east of the paired stones. Under the cobbles in a layer of grey silt, fragments of cremated bone and pottery were found, and below them, the remains of seven sub-rectangular and elliptical huts. Their construction, and finds associated with them, suggest seasonal occupation at some point between the late Neolithic and late Bronze Age.