There are single standing stones, groups and stone alignments all over West Wales, and during our tours in the Newport - Carningli - Mynydd Presely area we will see many of them. For the most part they were erected in the Bronze Age, but there is still great uncertainty as to what they were for. Maybe they had many different purposes -- some were perhaps put up as memorial stones to dead chieftains or other famous persons; some might have been waymarks; some might have shown the limits of a tribal territory; and some might just have been cattle scratching posts. Where clusters of stones are seen together, archaeologists tend to infer some ritual significance. In some sites there are "female stones" and "male stones." Naturally enough, many of the stones have names that link them with some famous person or event; and many are associated with tales of ghosts or fairies.

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