Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Inscribed Stone in the Chapel, Bardsey Island
Aberdaron, Gwynedd, Wales
A scheduled monument in Aberdaron, Gwynedd, recorded as Inscribed Stone (Early Medieval).
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Inscribed Stone
- Period
- Early Medieval
- Community
- Aberdaron
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 52.76409, -4.78680
- SAM number
- CN142
- Cadw record number
- 2438
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1608 map "(13) Cambriae Typus." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1608 · (13) Cambriae Typus. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1637 · Particular description of Wales. Cambria seu Wallia (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1799 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1883 · Watershed map England, Wales 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · 133 Bardsey Island (Hills) (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 base of a decorated stone which tapers to the top. The front is carved in two framed panels. The lower contains a worn cruciform single-strand ring-knot surrounded by interlace. The upper shows the lower portion of a figure wearing a pleated garment. The right edge has an inscription in half uncials which may be read downwards as ESILLI (?) MAR:QUENO. It has not been translated. The left edge and the back are plain. It was probably a grave-marker and dates to the 10th-11th centuries AD.
The monument is of national importance for its potential to enhance our knowledge of the early medieval period. The stone has been moved from its original location to the sheltered protection of Bardsey Island Chapel.
The scheduled area comprises the remains described.
Nearby in the register
- Cross-Inscribed Stone in the Chapel, Bardsey IslandCross-marked stoneunder 1 mi
- The ChapelReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Walls to Chapel and Ty CapelReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Ty CapelDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.