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Llanbedr Standing Stones is a prehistoric standing stone monument protected by Cadw under reference ME056. Located in Wales, the stones rise from bedrock of Lower Cambrian age, formed around 500 million years ago during the Early Cambrian period when this region lay beneath ancient seas. The underlying geology comprises mudstone, siltstone and sandstone—sedimentary rocks now exposed and weathered by millennia of upland weather.
Standing stones of this type were typically erected during the Neolithic and Bronze Age periods, serving purposes that remain subjects of scholarly debate: territorial markers, ritual centres, burial monuments or astronomical alignments. The Llanbedr example is one of many such stones distributed across the Welsh landscape, reflecting patterns of prehistoric settlement and movement across these upland areas.
The monument's survival on this Cambrian bedrock demonstrates the durability of the stone selection made by its prehistoric builders. The local geology would have provided the raw materials for erection, and the weathered Lower Cambrian rocks visible today bear witness to the deep antiquity of both the landscape itself and the human communities who shaped it.
Llanbedr Standing Stones is a scheduled monument protected by Cadw under reference ME056. View the official record →
Llanbedr Standing Stones is a prehistoric standing stone monument protected by Cadw under reference ME056.
Llanbedr Standing Stones 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.
Llanbedr Standing Stones 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 ME056.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Ceunant Egryn Enclosed Settlement (6.8 km), Enclosed Hut Circle Settlement and Long huts E of Egryn Abbey (7 km), Carneddau Hengwm Long Cairns (7.1 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 13 strands of Llanbedr Standing Stones'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.
Llanbedr Standing Stones stands on Lower Cambrian Rocks (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Early Cambrian. The rock here is mudstone, siltstone and sandstone.