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Aerial photograph of Penrhos Feilw Standing Stones, Trearddur
  • Menhir (standing stone) at Cremlyn Burial Chamber, Anglesey.
Standing stone (menhir) at Cremlyn
Battle Standing Stone
Carreg Waun Llech, a standing stone situated on Llangynidr Mountain
  • This six-foot high monolith is found on Dyffryn Lane, an ancient road that runs from the road between Welshpool and Newtown to a ford upon the Severn. It is situated about half a mile from the River Severn. This stone is traditionally associated with St Beuno, abbot of Clynnog in Caernarfonshire in the seventh century. Beuno is said to have re-attached the severed head of his niece Winifrede and resurrected her by using blessed water from a well in Flintshire. Holywell, as the site came to be known, has since then been a place of pilgrimage. Beuno was also the patron saint of the churches of Berriew and the neighbouring parish of Bettws Cedewen. These drawings were taken from the Worthington Smith drawings in Shrewsbury Public Museum. The photographs were taken by R. L. Bartlett, Shrewsbury.
An Inventory of the Ancient Monuments in Wales, Vol. I – Montgomery, 1911, two illustrations of Maen Beuno [image 26 of 122]