| Corpus Refs: | Macalister/1945:373 Nash-Williams/1950:171 |
| Site: | NEWCH |
| Discovery: | first mentioned, 1700 Lhuyd, E. |
| History: | Edward Lhuyd in Gibson's Camden, 627 states that the stone was 'erected near the highway' on the road from Carmarthen to Cynvel at Llan-Newydd. Evans/1917, 163, states that the stone was moved 'about the year 1856', to Trawsmawr House from the recently demolished chapel at Llanfihangel Croesfeini. Evans/1917, 163 also records that in that year Mr. Stephens-Davies the owner of the site gave this stone to the Carmarthenshire Antiquarian Society, who had it placed in St. Peter's Church Hall, Nott's square, until their museum opened. Macalister/1945, 356 argues that the stone we now have is a modern fake, which has attempted to copy the drawing by Lhuyd. According to Lhuyd the letters were undamaged, yet the flaking which has taken away the bottoms of the letters from the first line pre-dates the second line of text, as the letters are carved on the new matrix. Moreover, where as Lhuyd has the text as horizontal the current stone has the text running vertically. Macalister/1922b, 22, argues that the modern stone was cut about the end of the eighteenth century, after the original was lost. Nash-Williams/1950, 118 agrees that the carving is modern, but sees it as a re-cutting of the original stone, rather than a completely new stone. National Museum Cast no. 14.306.9. |
| Geology: | |
| Dimensions: | 1.56 x 0.88 x 0.28 (converted from Nash-Williams/1950) |
| Setting: | in display |
| Location: | Carmarthenshire Museum Now in the Carmarthen Museum. |
| Form: | plain |
| Condition: | complete , some The current stone was suffered from some flaking on the face where the inscription is. |
| Folklore: | none |
| Crosses: | none |
| Decorations: | no other decoration |
| Westwood, J.O. (1875): | SEVERI{N}I | FILI[VS] SEVERI Expansion: SEVERINI FILIVS SEVERI Westwood/1876 88--89 reading only |
| Rhys, J. (1875): | SEVERI{N}I | FILI SEVERI Expansion: SEVERINI FILI SEVERI Anon/1919 9 reading only Evans/1917 163 reading only Huebner/1876 30 reading only Rhys/1875 359 reading only Thomas/1994 242--243 reading only |
| Macalister, R.A.S. (1945): | SEVERINI | FILI SEVERI Expansion: SEVERINI FILI SEVERI Macalister/1922b 21-22 reading only Macalister/1945 346 reading only |
| Nash-Williams, V.E. (1950): | SEVERI{N}I | FILI SEVE{R}I Expansion: SEVERINI FILI SEVERI Translation: (The stone) of Severinus (PN), son of Severus (PN). Nash-Williams/1950 118 reading only |
| Orientation: | vertical down |
| Position: | n/a ; broad ; n/a ; undecorated |
| Incision: | n/a Nash-Williams/1950, 118 'the lettering has been re-cut in modern times'. This has obscured the original technique. |
| Date: | 400 - 533 (Nash-Williams/1950) 500 - 525 (Thomas/1994) |
| Language: | Latin (rcaps) |
| Ling. Notes: | none |
| Palaeography: | Nash-Williams/1950, 118, `Roman capitals. The r's have the open bow and nearly horizontal tail, N in l. 1 is reveresed, F in l. 2 follows the cursive form'. The L is FILI has an oblique stroke with the following I placed above this stroke. |
| Legibility: | some The bottom of the letters VER have been lost to flaking. Westwood/1879, 89, thought that he could make out the letters VS after FILI. No other scholar has seen these letters. |
| Lines: | 2 |
| Carving errors: | 0 |
| Doubtful: | no |