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Latitude: 52.1519 / 52°9'6"N
Longitude: -3.4617 / 3°27'42"W
OS Eastings: 300091
OS Northings: 251407
OS Grid: SO000514
Mapcode National: GBR YL.6FZP
Mapcode Global: VH5DH.Y59P
Plus Code: 9C4R5G2Q+Q8
Entry Name: Memorial to Llywelyn ap Gruffudd, Prince of Wales
Listing Date: 21 December 2000
Last Amended: 21 December 2000
Grade: II
Source: Cadw
Source ID: 24484
Building Class: Commemorative
ID on this website: 300024484
Location: Set back from the road approximately 300m W of the centre of Cilmery.
County: Powys
Community: Cilmery (Cilmeri)
Community: Cilmery
Traditional County: Brecknockshire
Tagged with: Memorial
Erected in 1956 to mark the place where Llywelyn II, the last native prince of Wales, was killed in a skirmish with English soldiers in December 1282.
A tall prehistoric-style menhir on a stepped concrete base, set on a grassy mound. The monument stands within a railed enclosure, with stone steps to the entrance, flanking which are engraved polished stones with English and Welsh engravings: 'Near this spot was killed our Prince Llywelyn'.
Listed for its national historic interest as the memorial to one of the greatest of medieval Welsh Princes.
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