Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Carew Cross
Carew, Pembrokeshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Cross
- Period
- Early Medieval
- Welsh name
- Croes Caeriw
- Community
- Carew
- Unitary authority
- Pembrokeshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 51.69804, -4.82778
- SAM number
- PE009
- Cadw record number
- 3011
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 consists of a free standing cross probably dating to the early medieval or medieval period and stands in small walled enclosure just to the south of Carew Castle. The cross is 4.1m in height and comprises a combined wheel-head and shouldered neck tenon below, mounted on a tall splayed shaft with expanded base. Both head and shaft have carved decoration in low relief on all sides. The decoration on the neck and shaft is in rectilinear panels. On the neck, there are two squares of swastika T-frets, then below, three squares of a key-pattern. On the shaft is a panel filled with a plait work pattern, then an irregular key-pattern, below which there are two small panels, one enclosing the Latin inscription: MARGIT/EUT RE/X.ETG (uin). FILIUS, or: (The cross of) Margiteut (or Maredudd) son of Etguin (or Edwin). The other panel, on the right, being blank; below these is a panel of a different form of plait work. The bottom panel is patterned with T-frets.
The cross is in state care and was moved to its present location in 1925.
The monument is of national importance for its potential to enhance our knowledge of the organisation and practice of Christianity. A cross may be part of a larger cluster of monuments and their importance can further enhanced by their group value.
The scheduled area comprises the remains described.
Nearby in the register
- The Carew CrossReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Carew InnCommercialunder 1 mi
- Castle Entrance Gatepiers and Old Cobbler's ShopDomesticunder 1 mi
- No 1 & 2Domesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.