Maen Llia
The maen llia stands between the Brecon Beacons National Park and the hills of the Black Mountainsn south of Sennybridge in Powys in Wales .
Maen Llia is a very large, over 3.7 m high, almost 3.0 m wide and 60 to 75 cm thick menhir made of conglomerate , which has a certain resemblance to a Stone Age hand ax . It comes from the Neolithic or the Bronze Age .
It must have been an important transition between the hills, because around 3000 years later the Romans built the “Sarn Helen” road directly past the stone, and part of the current road still follows the old route. In the 1940s, some faint inscriptions in Latin and Ogam were still visible on the stone.
According to a legend of “drinking menhirs”, which has been handed down many times in the British Isles , the “Maen Llia” also climbs down the mountain to drink from the river Nedd every morning when the rooster crows.
literature
- Homer Sykes: Mysterious Britain - Fact and Folklore George Weidenfeld & Nicolson Ltd. 1993 ISBN 0-297-83196-8 p. 109
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Coordinates: 51 ° 51 '39.1 " N , 3 ° 33' 49.2" W.