Gwynedd Archaeological Trust
Regional Historic Environment Record

Fonllech Hir Standing Stone (2), Harlech

Primary Reference Number (PRN) : 1039
Trust : Gwynedd
Community : Harlech
Unitary authority : Gwynedd
NGR : SH60433168
Site Type (preferred type first) : BRONZE AGE STANDING STONE
Status : Scheduled Monument

Description :
Small pointed stone, one of a series. <1>

Site visit during the Ardudwy survey. No change. <2>

The seventh stone of group 1m high, triangular profile. Fronlief Hir, ancient trackway leading to Moel Goedog and bryn cader faner (sam me 61). <3>

Low standing stone 0.8m high, 0.34 x 0.3m at base- wedge shaped. Raised stony area around base spreading 2m W-E and 1m N-S. 5m to NNW-low pile of grassed over stone 0.15m high and 0.4m across. <4>

In open upland pasture. This triangular stone is likely to be just the butt of a smaller broken stone. The low grassy mound around the stone may conceal fragments of the broken stone (Smith 2001).

Sources :
Smith, G. , 2001 , Survey of Prehistoric Funerary and Ritual Monuments in Wales: Meirionnydd, 2000-2001 ( © GAT)
Smith, G., and Steele, N. , 2005 , Pan-Wales Prehistoric Funerary and Ritual Sites Survey: Trial Data Synthesis ( © GAT)
Bowen, E. G. & Gresham, C. A. , 1967 , History of Merioneth Vol 1 , <1>
Kelly, R. S. , 1979 , Standing Stone , <2>
Lynch, F. , 1984 , Archaeologia Cambrensis , <5>

Events :
41639 : Me 057 Fmw Site Visit (year : 1982)
41641 : Me 057 Fmw Site Visit (year : 1988)
40529 : Prehistoric Funerary and Ritual Monuments: Meirionnydd (year : 2001)
40527 : Pan-wales Prehistoric Funerary and Ritual Sites Survey: Trial Data Synthesis (year : 2005)

Related records
National Monuments Record Wales NPRN 302759 https://coflein.gov.uk/en/site/302759/

Compiled date : 27-04-1988


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