Maen Llia

The menhir Maen Llia stands between the Brecon Beacons National Park and the hills of the Black Mountainsn south of Sennybridge, Powys in Wales.

Maen Llia is a very large, about 3.7 m high, just under 3.0 m wide and 60 to 75 centimeters thick rock of conglomerate, which has a certain resemblance to a stone-age hand ax. It dates from the Neolithic or the Bronze Age.

It must have been an important transition between the hills, because the Romans built around 3000 years later the road " Sarn Helen " directly on the stone over, and the current road still follows in a section of the old course. In the 1940s were still some faint inscriptions in Latin and Ogam on the stone visible.

After the British Isles many traditional legend of " drinking menhirs " climb down and the " Maen Llia " the mountain to every morning when the rooster crows, to drink from the river Nedd.