| Corpus Refs: | none |
| Site: | WLTNW |
| Discovery: | non-arch dig, 1939 grave-diggers |
| History: | Kay/1958, 122: `This stone...was noticed by the writer in March 1955. It was found during the digging of a grave on the south side of Walton West church, near St. Brides (Pembs.) some time before 1939'. |
| Geology: | Kay/1958, 122: `fine-grained sandstone'. |
| Dimensions: | 0.86 x 0.32 x 0.19 (converted from Kay/1958) |
| Setting: | unattch |
| Location: | on site Kay/1958, 122: `It is now in the south-west corner of the nave of the church'. |
| Form: | cross-marked Kay/1958, 122: `The monument is a large, naturally rounded boulder...no doubt from one of the neighbouring beaches'. |
| Condition: | complete , good Kay/1958, 122--123: `It is in a good state of preservation, the little damage it has sustained probably being due to rough handling rather than to weathering'. |
| Folklore: | none |
| Crosses: | none |
| Decorations: | Kay/1958, 123: `The convex face of the stone is carved in medium relief with well-proportioned plain Latin wheel-cross within a round-headed beaded panel, which follows the shape of the upper part of the stone and is formed by double incised lines. Below the cross is a plain band formed by two roughly parallel lines about 1 3/4 in. apart. The cross is 21 3/4 in. high and 11 3/4 in. wide; it is of Irish type, with straight limbs and rounded `armpits'; the head and foot have splayed terminals. The whole is outlined by a continuous beaded edge formed by an incised line. The wheel, of 10 in. external and 7 in. external [sic] diameter, is of similar relief, and also has the moulded edge...The back of the stone is plain apart from a continuation of the basal band appearing on the face and also the sides. The latter are both ornamented above this band with an intricate, if uneven, strapwork design in low relief. On the left side this is apparently derived from six-cord plain Stafford knotwork with cruciform intersections, but on the right side there is a different design in which the Stafford knot is incorporated, but without cruciform intersections. The Walton West stone, bearing a fullly-developed Latin wheel cross and monograms seems to be the most chastely-ornamented and well-proportioned representative that has yet come to light of a number of similar examples which appear to be of a local Pembrokeshire type. A good parallel is the stone from St. Edrens'. |
| Kay, R.E. (1958): | {A}~ || {W}~ | {I~H~C~} || {X~P~C~} Expansion: alpha omega IHC XPC Kay/1958 123 reading only |
| Orientation: | horizontal |
| Position: | ind ; broad ; within quadrants ; undivided Kay/1958, 123: `Symmetrically disposed in the upper and lower parts of the field are the monograms {Alpha}~ and {omega}~ and I~H~C~ X~P~C~'. |
| Incision: | inc |
| Date: | 900 - 1099 (Kay/1958) Dated on the basis of comparison to St. Edrens stone as dated by Nash-Williams/1950, 215. |
| Language: | Greek (greek) |
| Ling. Notes: | none |
| Palaeography: | Kay/1958, 123: `The A has a jointed cross-bar, and the central stroke of the {omega} has been expanded to meet the serif above'. |
| Legibility: | good |
| Lines: | 2 |
| Carving errors: | 0 |
| Doubtful: | no |