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Hirdre-Faig Standing Stone is a prehistoric standing stone located in Wales and protected by Cadw as a scheduled ancient monument under reference AN155. The stone rises from bedrock composed of Dinantian limestone, sandstone and argillaceous rocks laid down during the Mississippian period, geological formations that dominate much of the Welsh upland landscape. Standing stones of this type were typically erected during the Neolithic or Bronze Age as markers for territorial boundaries, ritual sites or burial places, though their precise original purpose remains uncertain.
The monument's survival in its upland limestone setting reflects both the durability of its geology and the persistence of the stone itself through millennia of landscape change. The Dinantian rocks supporting the site would have been familiar to prehistoric communities exploiting the surrounding pastoral and river-valley resources. The stone's form and position are characteristic of Wales's scattered but significant corpus of standing stones, each contributing to understanding of prehistoric monument distribution and the cultural practices of early farming societies across Britain.
Hirdre-Faig Standing Stone is a scheduled monument protected by Cadw under reference AN155. View the official record →
Hirdre-Faig Standing Stone is a prehistoric standing stone located in Wales and protected by Cadw as a scheduled ancient monument under reference AN155.
Hirdre-Faig Standing Stone dates from the prehistoric period, and is classified as a standing stone. It is one of over 32,000 scheduled monuments protected across the UK.
Hirdre-Faig Standing Stone is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, legally protected by Cadw — the body responsible for designating and safeguarding heritage sites in Wales. The official designation reference is AN155.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Trefwri Standing Stone (6.9 km), Pont Sarn-Las Hut Group (6.9 km), Caer Lêb Romano-British Farm (7.3 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 13 strands of Hirdre-Faig Standing Stone's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
Every location is different. Not every section appears for every place, only what the historical record actually holds turns up in a report.
Hirdre-Faig Standing Stone stands on Dinantian Rocks (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Mississippian. The rock here is limestone with subordinate sandstone and argillaceous rocks.