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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Four Stones (Powys)
Country: Wales County: Powys Type: Stone Circle
Nearest Town: New Radnor  Nearest Village: Presteigne
Map Ref: SO24576080  Landranger Map Number: 137
Latitude: 52.240198N  Longitude: 3.106079W
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
 5 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
 3 Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
0No data.
 4 Accuracy:
5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
0no data
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bishop_pam visited on 26th Jun 2022 - their rating: Cond: 4 Amb: 4 Access: 4

Anne T visited on 14th Aug 2021 - their rating: Cond: 3 Access: 4 Four Stones (Powys): Well worth the stop to see this four-poster. We parked at SO 24562 60871, opposite a small, but complicated road junction, where there was plenty of room for tractors and cars to pass, and walked back to the field. My first reaction was: "Is this the right place?" on walking into the field, because the grass and weeds were so high, but walking towards the stones, the grass around them had been partly mowed, mostly trodden down by other visitors. Starting at the southern-most stone, I photographed them all from different angles, in an anti-clockwise direction. Didn't spot any cup marks, but then the grass was still pretty tall around the base of each stone.

grandmasterglitch visited on 7th Apr 2021 - their rating: Cond: 4 Amb: 4 Access: 5

SumDoood visited on 30th Jul 2015 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 4 Access: 4 Well worth a visit. Ambience varies depending on the crops being grown around the site.

NickyD visited on 1st Sep 2013 - their rating: Cond: 2 Amb: 3 Access: 5

SolarMegalith visited on 1st Jul 2008 - their rating: Cond: 4 Amb: 3 Access: 4

wildtalents visited on 1st Jun 2000 - their rating: Cond: 5 Amb: 4 Access: 5 Compact and intense, the four stones stand at the edge of a field, the tallest is just high enough to peep over the wall at the edge of the lane. Judging by photos of my then wife next to the stones three of the four are above five feet, the tallest nearer six. The fourth stone is somewhat stumpier but still a boulder of some stature. They appear to be arranged in more a square than a circle.

BolshieBoris visited on 1st Sep 1998 - their rating: Cond: 4 Amb: 4 Access: 4

BolshieBoris visited on 1st Sep 1997 - their rating: Cond: 4 Amb: 3 Access: 4

FrothNinja saw from a distance - their rating: Cond: 2

Bladup myf AngieLake TimPrevett TheWhiteRider jeniferj have visited here

Average ratings for this site from all visit loggers: Condition: 3.5 Ambience: 3.63 Access: 4.33

Four Stones (Powys)
Four Stones (Powys) submitted by vicky : The Four Stones Stone Circle in Powys. Photo taken by Cassian Hall. (Vote or comment on this photo)
This site is a nice example of a ‘four poster’, sites commonly found in Scotland. The four stones stand in a small ring and have been misinterpreted as being the remains of a burial chamber. One of the blocks to the south-west has three possible cupmarks on it. There is Judicious parking for one vehicle near a gate to the north of the stones.

Note: The Neolithic Monuments of the Walton Basin, a talk with archaeologist Jack Rowe, Evenjobb Village Hall, Weds 27th September, details in the comments on our page
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Four Stones (Powys) submitted by Bladup : The Four Stones. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Four Stones (Powys) submitted by TimPrevett : I've submitted this photo as it's a composite of two shots, and sometimes when I use the program to join them, the result comes out slightly curved. I like that. I feel it gives a sense of being on a globe, and therefore the stones are part of the earth. A storm was also begining to brew up, it was humid, so there was a sense of immanence. I like these stones (though I probably say that about near... (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Four Stones (Powys) submitted by Antonine : Luna’s first Stone Circle, March 2022 (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Four Stones (Powys) submitted by virtualuser : Four Stones (Powys) (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Four Stones (Powys) submitted by Antonine : First visit today, March 2022

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Four Stones (Powys) submitted by Bladup : Four Stones (Powys).

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Four Stones (Powys) submitted by TimPrevett : Visited here on Saturday - and stumbled across the All Wales & European Vintage Ploughing Championships - with hundreds of tractors ploughing plots throughout the area which was once the neolithic enclosures, and indeed in Four Stones field. Interesting juxtaposition of farmers ancient and modern. Couldn't help wonder about getting teams of field walkers in afterwards! Returned on Sunday (tiny d...

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Four Stones (Powys) submitted by TimPrevett : Another composite of the stones, this time taking in the view to the North on the way to Kinnerton. Car parking can be seen to the back right. There is an enormous amount to be seen in the area here... worth giving half a day to explore at least. I had to make the choice of a couple monuments as we had about 40 minutes...

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Four Stones (Powys) submitted by TimPrevett : The kids have seen a few megaliths this summer, and enjoyed most of them. I think I have reached the right balance at their current ages which allows us to enjoy the stones without putting them off visiting. For anyone concerned about climbing on the megaliths, my son here was lifted on and off. No climbing or scuffing shoes against the stone was involved! (1 comment)

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Four Stones (Powys) submitted by TimPrevett : The view of the stones over the gate. A Scottish circle in Wales? Very homely. Me & my kids enjoyed these very much.

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Four Stones (Powys) submitted by TheWhiteRider : Another view of the Four Stones

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Four Stones (Powys) submitted by TheWhiteRider : Four Stones Stone Circle in Powys. The circle is situated right by the road and there appears to be no access, although the grass had been trodden down around them. Despite this the circle is very impressive due to the sheer sizer of the stones.

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Four Stones (Powys) submitted by Antonine : March 2022

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Four Stones (Powys) submitted by Antonine

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Four Stones (Powys) submitted by Anne T : The stone at the north-western 'corner' of the four poster.

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Four Stones (Powys) submitted by Anne T : The smallest of the four stones, at the north-eastern 'corner' of the four poster.

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Four Stones (Powys) submitted by Anne T : Going anti-clockwise around the circle, this is the stone at the south-eastern 'side' of the four-poster.

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Four Stones (Powys) submitted by Anne T : The stone at the south west side of the four-poster.

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Four Stones (Powys) submitted by Anne T : .... finally, a proper view of the four-poster, taken from just to the west of it

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Four Stones (Powys) submitted by Anne T : Getting closer, the stones started to appear out of the grass and weeds ....

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Four Stones (Powys) submitted by Anne T : You mean there's a stone circle in this field? The grass was taller than I was, in parts ....

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Four Stones (Powys) submitted by Postman : Spring equinox 2019, another glorious sunrise!

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Four Stones (Powys) submitted by Postman : Later in the morning of the spring equinox 2019

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Four Stones (Powys) submitted by Postman : I know of another four poster in Wales, do you?

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Re: Four Stones (Powys) by Anonymous on Saturday, 27 January 2024
i live at Fourstones. what is annoying is the amount of rubbish people leave behind. please treat the site with respect and take your rubbish home with you.
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Re: Four Stones (Powys) by Anonymous on Wednesday, 27 September 2023
Hi
I'd like to attend the talk at Evenjobb Village Hall tonight but the email address posted doesn't work. Can I just turn up rather than booking in advance? There would be 2 of us.
Bw
Liz
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The Neolithic Monuments of the Walton Basin talk, Wed 27th Sept by Andy B on Sunday, 10 September 2023
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The Neolithic Monuments of the Walton Basin, a talk with archaeologist Jack Rowe PCIA
Evenjobb Village Hall
Wed 27th September, 7.30pm - 9.00pm
The Walton Basin is one of the most extensively surveyed landscapes in Wales.
Perhaos the most intrauna and remarkable remains that have been dentred here ale tose of the comolex arrangement o meowdad monumnels, win some ammong
the largest of their kinds in Europe. Yet despite the wealth of information now available and its international significance,
the Basin has received surprisingly littie archaeological interpretation. Archaeologists will aways have unanswerable questions, but by taking a more nuanced theoretical approach, we may begin to untangle the wealth of possibilities as to why this remarkable landscape was the setting for varied ceremonial and monumental practices, and why these persisted for one-and-a-half millennia (and beyond).
Tickets £5
To book a place please email: [email protected]
The Neolithic Monuments of the Walton Basin is a Project Link talk
twitter.com/ArchaeoRowe
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Re: Four Stones (Powys) by Anonymous on Sunday, 19 July 2020
Not the easiest to find! But if you turn left off the A44 ( in the Leominster direction) towards kinnerton after the R turn to Yardro
NOT the B4372 but the next left! If you get to Walton you’ve gone too far
Once you turn left it’s about .6 of a mile on your left opposite the first farm you come to ( on your right) park in gateway on corner and turn to look at the road you’ve come down and it’s in the field opposite the farm - hidden and overgrown when I went in July 2020
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Re: Four Stones (Powys) by Anonymous on Friday, 02 June 2017
Has anyone spotted there's a BIG single stone (mid weight to these), just a few 100m away in a field on its own?
I'd love to know if there's a link?
I'm wondering if you lines these up to that one whether there might be any significance to the sun or ?? who knows. Fascinating and fascinated in equal measure - if I lived around here I'd take it further!
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    Re: Four Stones (Powys) by cat27 on Friday, 02 June 2017
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    I didn't want to be anon so I joined up 2.6.17

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      Re: Four Stones (Powys) by Anne T on Monday, 05 June 2017
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      Hello cat27,

      Welcome to the Portal. I hope you enjoy using it as much as I do. I'm unable to change the user name on your previous post (perhaps our Editor-in-Chief may be able to), but providing you log in each time, all subsequent posts will be attributed to you.

      Looking forward to hearing from you again.
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Re: Four Stones (Powys) by sem on Wednesday, 31 May 2017
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OS grid ref (Archwilio) SO24576080 [checked again SID]
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Re: Four Stones (Powys) by coldrum on Friday, 23 March 2012
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Coflein entry

http://www.coflein.gov.uk/en/site/306390/details/FOUR+STONES/
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    Re: Four Stones (Powys) by Anne T on Tuesday, 03 August 2021
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    Also recorded as: CADW Monument No RD004:

    "The monument consists of a stone setting, an arrangement of one or more standing stones, dating to the Late Neolithic or Early Bronze Age. The Four Stones are four large monoliths arranged in a very rough square. There are no markings on any of the stones. Stone 1, at the south-west, is about 1.65m high and stands c.2.6m to the south of Stone 2, which is c.1.8m high. Stone 3 stands c.3.7m to the east of Stone 2 and is c.1.2m high. Stone 4 stands 1.8m south of Stone 3 and 2.4m east of Stone 1 and is c.1.6m high. The distance between Stone 1 and 4 is 2.4m."

    "The monument is of national importance for its potential to enhance our knowledge of prehistoric burial and ritual practices. The features are an important relic of a prehistoric funerary and ritual landscape and retain significant archaeological potential. There is a strong probability of the presence of both intact ritual and burial deposits, together with environmental and structural evidence. Stone settings are often part of a larger cluster of monuments and their importance can further enhanced by their group value."
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Re: Four Stones (Powys) - Tacit Clip by TimPrevett on Wednesday, 01 October 2008
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Re: Four Stones (Powys) by AngieLake on Saturday, 09 August 2008
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See 'http://www.rgreen.org.uk/Radnor.html' for excellent information on this area. About halfway down the article 'The Walton Basin also called The Radnor Valley' is the section on its Prehistory, including photos and text about the Fourstones.
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Re: Four Stones (Powys) by Anonymous on Saturday, 09 August 2008
Rumour has it that these stones came from the quarry in our garden.

http://www.talesfromtherock.com
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