TWYN1/1

Corpus Refs:	Huebner/1876:127 Macalister/1949:1034 Nash-Williams/1950:286
Site:	TWYN1
Discovery:	first mentioned, 1789 Gough, R.
History:	Westwood/1876, 160: `In Gough's Camden, iii. p. 172, tab. V. fig. 7, and in Pennant's Supplemental Tables, tab. V. fig. 2, a stone is described and figured standing in the churchyard of Towyn'. Macalister/1949, 169: `Gough describes and figures a stone which in the eighteenth century stood in the churchyard of Towyn'. Nash-Williams/1950, 172: `Recorded in the late 18th century. Now lost'.
Geology:
Dimensions:	0.0 x 0.0 x 0.0 (Unknown)
Setting:	Lost (present 1799, missing 1876)
Location:	Recorded in Gough's Camden (1789) but lost by the time of Westwood.
Form:	Indeterminate Nash-Williams/1950, 172: `Rough pillar-stone'.
Condition:	n/a , n/a
Folklore:	none
Crosses:	none
Decorations:	no other decoration

Inscriptions

Westwood, J.O. (1876):	PASCENT Expansion: PASCENT Translation: Pascent (PN). Westwood/1876 160 reading only
Macalister, R.A.S. (1949):	PASCENT Expansion: PASCENT Translation: Pascent (PN). Macalister/1949 169 reading only
Nash-Williams, V.E. (1950):	PASCENT[-- Expansion: PASCENT[I] Translation: (The stone) of Pascentius (PN). Nash-Williams/1950 172 concise discussion

Orientation:	vertical up
Position:	ind ; ind ; ind ; ind Nash-Williams/1950, 172: `Latin inscription (? incomplete) in one line reading vertically upwards (?)'.
Incision:	ind
Date:	400 - 533 (Nash-Williams/1950) 600 - 699 (Westwood/1876) Westwood/1876, 160: `The inscription may in fact be as early as the seventh century'.
Language:	name only (rcaps)
Ling. Notes:	none
Palaeography:	Westwood/1876, 160: `a stone...on which is described in debased Roman capitals the name of PASCENT, the second letter A having the cross-bar angulated and the E reversed'. Macalister/1949, 169: `Roman capitals...(the E inverted)'. Nash-Williams/1950, 172: `Roman capitals. The A had an angular cross-bar; the E was reversed'.
Legibility:	n/a
Lines:	1
Carving errors:	n
Doubtful:	no

Pascent (Language: Latin; Gender: male)
Westwood/1876, 160: `I find the name of Pascent among the great men and princes of Wales in the MS. of Nennius in the Harleian collection in the British Museum, and Pasgen as one of the sons of Brychan of Brecknock (Cotton MS. Brit. Mus. A xiv.); and in Rees' Essay on the Welsh Saints we read (p. 163), `It has been suggested that this stone was a monument to the memory of Pasgen, son of Dingad, grandson of Brychan; and though the circumstance of other persons named Pasgen occurring in Welsh history may so far render the fact uncertain, the coincidence that Gwenddydd, a daughter of Brychan, is recorded as one of the saints of this place, seems to offer a strong confirmation of the supposition''.
Macalister/1949, 169: `The name occurs in the genealogy of Cingen son of Catell in the Harleian Genealogies (Y Cymmrodor ix 181)'.
Nash-Williams/1950, 172: `Pascentius was a fairly common Christian-Roman name.[4]
[4] Cf. ILCV, [Diehl/1927--31] nos. 1269 (Rome c. A.D. 400), 1968 C, 2117 (Africa), 3109 A (Italy). See also No. 182 (l. 21)'.