| Name: | Bedd Emlyn [Also: Clochaenog] | CISP No: | CLOCG |
| Place: | Bryn-y-Beddau | Grid Ref: | SJ 520 5320 (GB)
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| Parish: | Clocaenog | Stones: | 1 |
| County: | Denbighshire (Dinbych) , Wales | Saint(s): | none |
| Site Type: | cemetery |
Nash-Williams/1936, 82: `Found in Clocaenog parish at Bedd Emlyn on the summit of Bryn y Beddau.'
Macalister/1945, 374: `Formerly on a mound at Bryn y beddau, known (from an old misreading of the inscription) as Bedd Emlyn, "Emlyn's grave" .'
Camden/Gough/1806, ii, 578: (following Lluyd) `On a dreary heath three miles from Ruthin, and a mile out of the road are two stones at each end of a grave, four feet asunder, the shortest three feet and an half high, the other six and an half, and out of its upright [sic] on the broadest face of which (being two feet and half) are these letters ... The grave is in a hollow eight feet diameter, and just below it is the tumulus called Krig Yryn.'
Macalister/1945, 375, cites Gentleman's Magazine (1803) p.418, for a local tradition that there had formerly been a third stone grouped with these two.
Jones/1898, 373--377, gives a detailed description of the site and its surrounds, he notices a number of stone circles in the region, and quotes a work of 1804 which tells of the stone being pulled down from an up-right position.
Bryn-y-Beddau means `Hill of the Graves' (Redknap/1991, 54)