NANTD/1

On unsuccessfully searching for this stone, I was informed that it had been accidentally destroyed by workmen at Merthyr Tydvil on its way to the Swansea Museum, whither it was being carried by a Mr. Richards.

Macalister/1949, 318: `According to Jones: `Placed as a pillar to support a gate or rails in a wall on the right hand side of the road from Brecon to Merthyr, at a distance of about eleven miles from the former, and about fifty yards on the other side of the river Lyseuog'. Sometime before 1847 it was destroyed, when about to be removed to a museum in Swansea -- either intentionally, to prevent the removal, as seems to be implied by Westwood (1853); or accidentally, while on the way, as he states in LW, p.55. In 1886 it is said that the stone had been traced to a brewery in Myrthyr Tydfil, where, apparently, it was lost. The only record of the inscription is a wood-cut in Jones's Brecknockshire'.

Nash-Williams/1950, 79: `Fragmentary rough pillar-stone'.

Macalister/1945, 319: `The gap [in the inscription] holding about six letters if the drawing be correctly proportioned. West (LW, p.55) cites two readings -- Terminus Catiri, by a Dr. John Jones and Tiberius Catiri by Taliesin Williams: both, as they stand, improbable guesswork, but giving some idea of the amount of lettering lost. As Hubner saw, the final VS in the the first line is most likely to have been the end of FILIVS; and we may reasonably substitute FI-LI, written in the usual double monogram form, for Jones's IN and Williams's RI. The M of Jones's TERMINVS might then be NI, and we should thus get a not improbable (E)TERNI FILIVS for the reading of the first line. All those who have seen the stone agree on CATIRI for the second line; otherwise we might be tempted to suggest that if it should ever come to light again -- an improbable contingency --the second name would be found to have been CATVRIGI'.

Nash-Williams/1950, 79: `The lettering was apparently Roman capitals'.