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Maen Madoc is an Early Medieval inscribed stone located in Breconshire, Wales, dating to the Early Medieval period and bearing testimony to the Christian religious landscape of post-Roman Wales. The stone itself is a standing monument carved with an inscription in the Latin alphabet, which represents the literate religious culture of the period. As a scheduled ancient monument under Cadw protection, it exemplifies the class of inscribed stones that served commemorative, possibly funerary, or votive functions within Early Medieval Welsh Christian communities. The monument provides valuable evidence for settlement patterns, religious practice, and the continuation of written culture in Wales during the Early Medieval centuries following Roman withdrawal.
Maen Madoc is a scheduled monument protected by Cadw under reference BR018. View the official record →
Maen Madoc is an Early Medieval inscribed stone located in Breconshire, Wales, dating to the Early Medieval period and bearing testimony to the Christian religious landscape of post-Roman Wales. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Cadw under reference BR018.
Maen Madoc dates from the early medieval period, and is classified as a inscribed stone. It is one of over 32,000 scheduled monuments protected across the UK.
Maen Madoc 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 BR018.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Glynneath Gunpowder Works (7.6 km), Wernlas ring cairn and cairnfield (7.7 km), Craig y Ddinas Hillfort (7.7 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 13 strands of Maen Madoc'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.
Maen Madoc stands on Upper Devonian Rocks (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Late Devonian. The rock here is sandstone and conglomerate, interbedded.