2021
SO0196 : Approaching the standing stone south of Llyn y Tarw
taken 3 years ago, 3 km from Clatter, Powys, Wales
Approaching the standing stone south of Llyn y Tarw
In this upland area we are somewhere in the middle of a prehistoric site of national importance. There are many cairns, or burial mounds, and I mean many, along with stone circles, also stone rows, hut circles and D-shaped enclosures and fossilised prehistoric ploughing evidence.
Cadw describes the area thus: 'Llyn y Tarw Ritual Complex comprises a group of associated funerary and ritual monuments, probably dating from the Bronze Age (c.2,300 BC - 800 BC) and situated to the East of Llyn y Tarw, within open moorland on the upland plateau of Bryn y Fawnog. The group comprises a large stone circle, at least four small burial cairns and a small stone alignment.
The monument is of national importance for its potential to enhance our knowledge of prehistoric ritual practices. The monument is well preserved and is an important relic of a prehistoric funerary and ritual landscape. It retains significant archaeological potential, with a strong probability of the presence of associated archaeological features and deposits. The extensive surviving Bronze Age ritual landscape contained within this upland plateau - including several large round barrows, platform cairns and standing stones - further increases the importance of this central group'.
They survive because the area is high and remote and agricultural practices have to date been unobtrusive and comprises mainly sheep and cattle grazing and only recently (in 2005+) the presence of wind turbine 'farms'.
This standing stone could be a waymarker or of unknown ritual or religious purpose.
It is sited in such a spot that it is visible from afar.
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