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Carreg Hir

Cwrt Sart, Briton Ferry,
Wales

National grid reference: SS 744953

In grounds of Cwrt Sart Primary School, reset on a concrete foundation. A massive slab of sandstone with its widest faces E and W is 2.7m high , 0.9m wide and 0.7m thick.. The E face is the flattest, and shows clear signs of pecking over much of its surface - ?reworked; a lesser amount of pecking on E side; N and S sides show bedding planes. c3m high x 1.75m (max with) x 0.8m (S end) GGAT 72 Prehistoric Funerary and Ritual Sites survey 2001. The name suggests that the stone was in the area of Court Sart Farm, but no trace was found of a standing stone and no information was obtained concerning it. This stone may be the Garreg Hir stone one half mile to the east. ( Source 02 ) Natural boulder of Pennant sandstone, 10ft 6'' x 10'' x 2ft at base, probably set up in the early or middle Bronze Age. Monuments of this class are rare in Glamorgan except in the Gower peninsula.