Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Pen-Sieri Inscribed Stone
Aberffraw, Isle of Anglesey, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Inscribed Stone
- Period
- Early Medieval
- Community
- Aberffraw
- Unitary authority
- Isle of Anglesey
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 53.20690, -4.49506
- SAM number
- AN058
- Cadw record number
- 3264
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 5 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1883 "Watershed map England, Wales 3." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Summary description and reason for designation
The following provides a general description of the Scheduled Monument.
The monument consists of a stone with an early-medieval memorial inscription dating to the 5th century AD. The stone measures 1.6m long and 0.4 - 0.46m square, with 'MAILIS-', (the stone of) Mail, inscribed in one vertical line. The lettering is well preserved and clear, about 8cm high and the inscription is 28cm long.
Once used as a lintel on the inner side of the window opening S of the door in the W wall of the building known as Pensieri Bach, the stone is thought to have originally stood in a field near Llanfaelog. When Pensieri Bach was demolished the stone was moved to a restored pig-sty at Trecastell c.2km further S, set vertically in the floor and secured in soft lime concrete.
The monument is of national importance for its potential to enhance our knowledge of the organisation and practice of religion and commemoration in the medieval period.
The scheduled area comprises a circular area 1m in diameter centred on the stone within the pig-sty.
Nearby in the register
- Barclodiad y Gawres Chambered TombChambered round barrowunder 1 mi
- Tyn TowynDomesticunder 1 mi
- Mynydd Bach round cairnRound Barrowunder 1 mi
- Llangwyfan-isafDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.