SN9219 : Maen Llia Standing Stone
taken 10 years ago, 4 km from Heol Senni, Powys, Great Britain
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Maen Llia Standing Stone
A short distance from the minor road leading from Ystradfellte to Heol Senni, the massive monolith of Maen Llia stands on the moorland in a magnificent and isolated spot in the Brecon Beacon National Park. It is a large diamond-shaped slab of conglomerate, 3.7m (12ft) high and 2.8m (9ft) wide and only 0.6m (2ft) thick. It is likely that a quarter to a third of the stone is below ground, so it has managed to stand up to thousands of years of wild Welsh weather.
It lies at the junction of two valleys and its visibility from some distance suggests that it could possibly be a territorial marker or it could mark an ancient trackway, guiding travellers across the watershed, in a way similar to the stone north of Maen Mawr circle. In the Forties, some faint Latin and Ogam inscriptions were still visible on the stone's surface.
A legend says that whenever a cock crows, the stone moves off to drink in the River Nedd. According to another story, the stone visits the River Mellte on Midsummer morning.
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It lies at the junction of two valleys and its visibility from some distance suggests that it could possibly be a territorial marker or it could mark an ancient trackway, guiding travellers across the watershed, in a way similar to the stone north of Maen Mawr circle. In the Forties, some faint Latin and Ogam inscriptions were still visible on the stone's surface.
A legend says that whenever a cock crows, the stone moves off to drink in the River Nedd. According to another story, the stone visits the River Mellte on Midsummer morning.
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- Grid Square
- SN9219, 32 images (more nearby
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- Photographer
- Sharon Loxton (find more nearby)
- Date Taken
- Saturday, 5 April, 2008 (more nearby)
- Submitted
- Tuesday, 8 April, 2008
- Category
- Standing stones (more nearby)
- Subject Location
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OSGB36:
SN 924 191 [100m precision]
WGS84: 51:51.6477N 3:33.8353W - Camera Location
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OSGB36:
SN 923 191
- View Direction
- Northeast (about 45 degrees)
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