BRIDGEND, STANDING STONE
Site Details
NPRN 300860
Map Reference SS97NW
Grid Reference SS90217951
Unitary (Local) Authority Bridgend
Old County Glamorgan
Community Bridgend
Type of Site CUP MARKED STONE
Broad Class RELIGIOUS RITUAL AND FUNERARY
Period Bronze Age
Site Description 1. Cup marked standing stone. Scheduled Ancient Monument
2. An erect monolith, c.1.5m high originally, by 0.9m by 0.5m, leaning rather to the NW.
Excavation, 1964, revealed packing stones in a stone-holed disturbed by allotment gardening, with a cremation deposit at its base.
(sources: OS 495 card; SS97NW1; Lewis 1965, 250-254)
J.Wiles 24.12.2002
