PRTT1/1

Westwood/1879, 38--39: `This stone originally stood upon the road from Nidum (Neath) to the southern Bovium or Bomium (either Boverton or Ewenny). Thirty years ago I found it lying in the harbour-master's office at Port Talbot, broken into five or six pieces...In addition to the notices above given, this stone has been recorded in the `Journal of the Archaeological Institute', iii. 1846, p. 274; the `Journal of the Archaeological Association', ii. 1847, p. 287; Thomas Wright's `The Celt and the Saxon', p. 456; Haddan and Stubbs, Councils, i. 168; and by myself in the Arch. Camb., 1856, pp. 251, 320'.

Rhys/1899, 145: `Another stone, which was formerly at Port Talbot, is now in the church [at Margam]'.

Macalister/1945, 383: `It was originally at Port Talbot'.

Nash-Williams/1950, 161: `Found on the E. outskirts of the town beside the former course of the main road, near an old toll-cottage'.

RCAHMW/1976, 37: `found in 1839 on the outskirts of Port Talbot (No. 755 (iii))'.

Macalister/1945, 383: `red sandstone'.

RCAHMW/1976, 37: `sandstone'.

RCAHMW/1976, 37: `The stone, formerly in Margam Abbey Church, is in Margam Stones Museum, set up as for a milestone'.

Rhys/1899, 145: `Roman milestone'.

Macalister/1945, 383: `A pillar... with rounded sides'.

Nash-Williams/1950, 161: `Rough pillar-stone...60+" h. x 19 1/2" w. x 3--12" t...The stone bears two inscriptions (Fig. 174) on the front and back respectively...For another example of a re-used Roman monument see No. 228'.

RCAHMW/1976, 37: `The squared sandstone pillar (Plate 1) originally serving as a Roman milestone and was re-used inverted for a Latin memorial inscription on the opposite face'.

Rhys/1899, 145: `The stone is broken in several pieces'.

Rhys/1918, 186: `The Roman inscription itself with the three first lines incomplete owing to the loss of one of the six pieces to which the stone was reduced. However, Westwood, in his plate 26, gives all the six pieces, but his plate leaves the third line impossible to read'.

Macalister/1945, 383: `broken into several pieces. The top fragment is lost, but otherwise the stone is in good condition'.

Nash-Williams/1950, 161: `fractured in five pieces, with part of the head wanting'.

The name of the Emperor Maximinus here recorded (with the title INVICTUS) also occurs in an inscription found in Cumberland, given by Horsley (Brit. Rom. p. 192, No. 40; and conf. Hubner, Inscr. Lat. vii. 1158)'.

Macalister/1945, 383--384: `This inscription is outside our scope, but it may be observed that the Imperial praenomina are inaccurate. There were two emperors called Maximinus -- Gaius Iulius Verus Maximinus (A.D. 235--238) and Galerius Valerius Maximinus (A.D. 308--314). The latter is doubtless the person intended. Flauius Valerius Seuerus was emperor in 306--7; apparently his praenomina were by some error ascribed in the inscription to his sucessor. Such an error would be most likely to take place just at a change of reign, so that we may confidently date this inscription to A.D. 308'.

Nash-Williams/1950, 161: `The inscription identifies the monument as a Roman milestone, set up originally in the time of the Emperor Maximinus (A.D. 309-13), presumably to mark the repair or rehabilitation of the Roman main S. Wales road where it passed through or near the site of modern Port Talbot'.

Rhys/1899, 145: `reading, according to Hubner (No. 1158) Imp(eratore) C[aesare) Fla(vio) Val(erio) Maximino invicto Augus(to). As to the lettering, I noticed that the last two V's have their right limb perpendicular, and so with the tag of the G'.

Rhys/1918, 186: `The Roman inscription itself with the three first lines incomplete owing to the loss of one of the six pieces to which the stone was reduced. However, Westwood, in his plate 26, gives all the six pieces, but his plate leaves the third line impossible to read'.

Nash-Williams/1950, 161: `Lightly picked Roman capitals, with straight serifs, clumsily formed. The A's have no cross-bar. The F in l. 1 is E-shaped (see No. 27)'.

RCAHMW/1976, 37: `This inscription, in one line down the face originally'.

Rhys/1899, 146: `Compare [this inscription with] the Spittal Stone in Pembrokeshire: Evali fili Dencui Cuniovende mater ejus, `The monument of Eval: Cuniovende his mother (put it up)''.

Macalister/1928, 289, considers this inscription as evidence for the development of the use and pronunciation of the genitive.

Macalister/1945, 384: `The syntax of the inscription in which, as in modern Welsh, the genitive relationship is expressed by position only, is worthy of special notice'.

Nash-Williams/1950, 161: `The form of the filiation by direct reference to the father is unusual (cf. No. 402). The inscription shows that after Roman times the stone was reset upside down to mark the tomb of an early Christian, Cantusus, who was apparently buried at or near the road-side in the earlier Roman tradition (cf. No. 73)'.

RCAHMW/1976, 37: `If pater is to be equated with the second name rather than the first, in contrast to the usual formula with filius, this rendering is unique'.

Rhys/1899, 145--146: `on the back the following inscription reading downwards:

hIC IACIT CANTVSVS PATER PAVLINVS

Two of the fractures cross this line of letters, one between the I and C of hIC, and the other along the I of Paulinus, and through the bottom stroke of the L which slants forward underneath the I; but instead of this LI, Westwood has only I or an imperfect L: the two letters should have been there. Among the peculiarities of the lettering may be mentioned that the top of the h, the first A, and the two first T's, stand above all the other letters. The h is the only minuscule of the group, and the first A bulges in the middle like the first A of Carantorius on the Kenfig stone (p. 133). The V tends to have its second limb perpendicular, but the V following A is conjoint with it'.

Macalister/1945, 384: `The lettering is unusual, with fantastic curves: in the last word the letters AVL are ligatured'.

Nash-Williams/1950, 161: `Roman capitals, fairly deeply picked in good style, with half-uncial H. The A's and T's are elongated, the latter with short top bar. The R has the open bow and short tail. There is one ligature'.

RCAHMW/1976, 37: `The letters are picked out in Roman capitals with no separation of words; the H is the single half-uncial letter, some of the A-s and T-s are enlarged, the C-s have expanded terminals and the R a short tail; there is one ligature (AV)'.