What is recorded here
A named place photographed at this map point in Merthyr Tydfil.
Dated to the Bronze Age or Iron Age, the inscribed stone may have had ritual or territorial significance. Local folklore sometimes associates such stones with ancient boundary markers or memorials to lost warriors.
Places near here
Gelligaer Common Early Christian Stone; The Rhoihi Stone; Cefn Gelli-Gaer Inscribed StoneInscribed Stone · 43 yd
Gelligaer Common Ring Cairn, South of Ty MawrRing Cairn · 296 yd
Cwmllwydrew MeadowsNature reserve · 995 yd
Parc Cwm Darran Visitor CentreVisitor information · 1058 yd
Graveyard and chapel at PentwynChurch, cross or graveyard · 1092 yd
Pentwyn, CemeteryCemetery · 1169 yd
School Chapel, Fochriw; St Andrew's Church, Pentwyn, FochriwMission Church · 1170 yd
Disused mine building in Cwm BargodOld home or work place · 1200 yd
Tyla-du PlantationForest · 1352 yd
Mynydd FochriwMountain / peak · 1517 yd
Twyn Y Fid-FfawyddMountain / peak · 1.1 mi
Terraced houses on a steep hill, BedlinogMountain or hill · 1.3 miOther information
Photo: John Lord · CC BY-SA 2.0