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Croes Siencyn

Primary Reference Number (PRN) : 00141m
Trust : Glamorgan Gwent
Community : Cynffig
Unitary authority : Bridgend
NGR : SS8224082325
Site Type (preferred type first) : Medieval Cross
Status : Scheduled Monument

Summary :
Slab with incised cross originally recorded 'between Kenfig and Pyle on the roadside' (Gray 1909, 189), standing in the garden of 65 Marlas Road, probably of 11th or 12th century date.

Description :
Slab with incised cross originally recorded 'between Kenfig and Pyle on the roadside' (Gray 1909, 189), standing in the garden of 65 Marlas Road, probably of 11th or 12th century date. In width from 50cm-38cm & in thickness from 20cm-15cm. Roughly dressed with rounded head. Badly weathered (RCAHMW 1976 65, no.971).
Evans 2003: GGAT 73 Early-Medieval Ecclesiastical Sites Project database


Sources :
RCAHMW , 1976 , An inventory of the Ancient monuments in Glamorgan, I, iii: The Early Christian period
Redknap, M and Lewis, J M , 2007 , A corpus of Early medieval inscribed stones and stone sculpture in Wales. vol 1: South-east Wales and the English border
01/MM Record Card/OS//1956/SS 88 SW 4/;
02/PM Desc Text//Gray T/1909/Burried City of Kenfig/p.189;
07/PM Mention//RCHM//1982/Glam Invent Vol.3 Pt.2 p.383;
03/PM Desc Text//1935-7/Bull Board Celtic Stud/8 p.163;
05/PM List/RCHM//1976/Glam Invent/No.971;
04/PM List/Nash-Williams V.E/1950/ECMW/p.133/;
08/MM Desc Text/Cadw/Whittle E/27.02.86 AM7/
06/MM Record Card/OS//1976/SS 88 SW 4/;

Events :

Related records
Inscribed Stones and Stone Scuplture Ref No. G115

Compiled date : 12-03-2004


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