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Waun Mawn

Buildings and structures completed in the 4th millennium BCMonuments and memorials in PembrokeshireStone circles in Wales
Standing stone and lying stone near Cnwc yr Hydd geograph.org.uk 4213876
Standing stone and lying stone near Cnwc yr Hydd geograph.org.uk 4213876

Waun Mawn (Welsh for "peat moor") is a megalithic site in the Preseli Mountains of Pembrokeshire, Wales. Following excavations in 2018, it became the site of a supposed dismantled Neolithic stone circle. The diameter of the postulated circle was estimated to be 110 m (360 ft), making it the fifth largest diameter for a British stone circle, after Avebury, Stanton Drew, Karl Lofts, Long Meg, and The Ring of Brodgar. The site is located around 1 mile (1.6 km) to the south west of Brynberian. This tract of moorland sits on the southern slopes of the 339 m (1,112 ft) hill top of Cnwc yr Hŷdd ("cock of the corn"), just to the north of the broad east-west ridge of the Preseli range. There are four stones at the site today, one standing and three prostrate. Nearby are the Troed y Rhiw ("foot of the hillside") standing stones and to the west of the main group is another solitary standing stone, the 'Waun Mawn Stone', measuring some 2.3 m (7 ft 7 in) high.

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Waun Mawn (Waun Mawn Stone Circle)

B4329
SA41 3TT , Eglwyswrw
Wales, United Kingdom
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Standing stone and lying stone near Cnwc yr Hydd geograph.org.uk 4213876
Standing stone and lying stone near Cnwc yr Hydd geograph.org.uk 4213876
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