| Corpus Refs: | Macalister/1949:997 Nash-Williams/1950:159 |
| Site: | LFYNY |
| Discovery: | first mentioned, 1806 Gough, R. |
| History: | Gough/1806, ii, 508 and iii, 141, are the earliest references to the stone. Macalister/1949, 142: `In 1857 it was removed by the Earl of Cawdor to the lower garden of Golden Grove, near Llanarthney; in 1930 it was transferred to Cardiff Museum'. Macalister/1949, 142, cites Jones/1854, 303, as the earliest publication of the stone. |
| Geology: | Nash-Williams/1950, 115: `local feldspathic sandstone'. |
| Dimensions: | 2.08 x 0.66 x 0.2 (converted from Macalister/1949) |
| Setting: | in display |
| Location: | National Museum, Cardiff (Cat: 30.47) Now in the National Museum in Cardiff. |
| Form: | Cramp shaft B |
| Condition: | incomplete , good Macalister/1949, 142: `the top is broken off'. |
| Folklore: | none |
| Crosses: | none |
| Decorations: | geometric ribbon interlace; geometric key pattern; geometric other Macalister/1949, 142--143: `The whole stone is covered with geometrical devices, pocked and rubbed smooth, but not very artistically executed. Face A bears the following devices, from above downward: Greek fret; vertical and horizontal key pattern; interlacement; panel with incription...vertical and horizontal key pattern; diagonal key pattern. Side A: a key pattern. Face B: interlacement; fret; diagonal, vertical, and horizontal key pattern. Side B: a Greek fret, the angles filled with pellets.' Nash-Williams/1950, 115--116: `It is decorated on all faces with carved patterns in low relief...Front. The decoration is disposed vertically in panels. (a) Four squares of double-beaded swastika key-pattern; (b) two pairs of interlinked double-beaded oval rings; (c) transverse panel with an inscription...; (d) two squares of double-beaded swastika key-pattern; (e) double horizontal band of diaper key-pattern. Right. Narrow vertical panel of diaper key-pattern variously disposed...Back. The decoration is in three panels: (a) plain fourteen-cord (merging into sixteen cord) knotwork with irregular `breaks'; (b) plain twenty-four-cord plait with irregular breaks; (c) four squares of diaper-key pattern with pellets. Left. Narrow vertical panel of T-fret pattern variously disposed...The present monument would appear from the relatively good style of its decoration to be somewhat earlier than [others of late 10th and early 11th century]'. Redknap/1991, 73: `recognisable as a southern Welsh type of the 10th century. Once again the panelled patterning is mainly Irish in inspiration and was perhaps derived from manuscript decoration'. |
| Macalister, R.A.S. (1949): | EIUDON Expansion: EIUDON Macalister/1949 142 reading only |
| Nash-Williams, V.E. (1950): | EIUDON Expansion: EIUDON Translation: (? The cross of) Eiudon(PN). Nash-Williams/1950 115 reading only |
| Orientation: | horizontal |
| Position: | n/a ; broad ; n/a ; panel |
| Incision: | pock+rub Nash-Williams/1950, 115: `coarsely picked in good style'. Macalister/1949, 142: `pocked and rubbed smooth'. |
| Date: | 900 - 999 (Nash-Williams/1950) 900 - 999 (Redknap/1991) |
| Language: | name only (rbook) |
| Ling. Notes: | none |
| Palaeography: | Nash-Williams/1950, 115: `Round half-uncials...The angular form of the U with the downward continuation of the first stroke is unusual'. |
| Legibility: | good |
| Lines: | 1 |
| Carving errors: | 0 |
| Doubtful: | no |