Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Site of Tegernacus Stone
Darran Valley, Caerphilly, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Inscribed Stone
- Period
- Early Medieval
- Date of designation
- 21 February 1973
- Community
- Darran Valley
- Unitary authority
- Caerphilly
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 51.71568, -3.24985
- SAM number
- GM339
- Cadw record number
- 619
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 1636 "Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ..." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Summary description and reason for designation
The following provides a general description of the Scheduled Ancient Monument.
The monument comprises the site of a 7th century inscribed memorial stone which was removed to the National Museum of Wales in c. 1920. Its site is marked by a concrete pillar. The inscription on the stone reads TEGERNA/CUS FILI/(U)S MARM/MIC IACIT. The pillar stands in a field a few metres west of the ridgeway along the crest of Cefn y Brithdir. Its siting suggests that the stone was meant to be seen from this ridgeway.
The monument is of national importance for its potential to enhance our knowledge of early Christian burial and ritual practices. The features are an important relic of a post-Roman funerary and ritual landscape and retain significant archaeological potential. There is a strong probability of the presence of both intact ritual and burial deposits, together with environmental and structural evidence. Stone settings are often part of a larger cluster of monuments and their importance can further enhanced by their group value.
The scheduled area comprises the remains described and areas around them within which related evidence may be expected to survive.
Nearby in the register
- Capel y BrithdirChapelunder 1 mi
- War MemorialCommemorativeunder 1 mi
- Three Platform Houses on Cefn BrithdirPlatform houseunder 1 mi
- Elliot Colliery Winding Engine House and EngineIndustrialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.