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Conbelani Stone, St Roque's Chapel

Primary Reference Number (PRN) : 01335m
Trust : Glamorgan Gwent
Community : Merthyr Mawr
Unitary authority : Bridgend
NGR : SS8887078086
Site Type (preferred type first) : Early Medieval Cross
Status : Scheduled Monument

Summary :
Pillar cross, first recorded (as PRN 00272m) as standing on the riverbank at Merthyr Mawr; now set in the ground near St Roques Chapel at Merthyr Mawr House, which is the NGR given above.

Description :
Pillar cross, first recorded (as PRN 00272m) as standing on the riverbank at Merthyr Mawr; now set in the ground near St Roques Chapel at Merthyr Mawr House, which is the NGR given above. 01335m is the PRN for it in its location now (RCAHMW 1976, 56-7 no.927).
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
Thomas H.T. , 1892 , Inscribed Stones , Transaction of the Cardiff Naturalist Society : XXV pt.1 : 34-47
02/PM Desc Text/RISW/Allen JR/1899/Archaeol Cambrensis/5thSer Vol16
01/PM List/RCAHM//1976/Glam Invent/No927;
No61 pp1-69;
06/MM Record Card/OS//1975/SS 87 NE 48/;
09/MM Photo/GGAT/Long T/1984//
08/PH List/Thomas HT/1892/Trans Cardiff Natur Soc/pp34-47;
04/PM List//Nash-Williams VE/1950/Early Christ Mon Wales/p154;
03/MM Record Card/OS//1957/SS 87 NE 48/;
05/PM Desc Text///1908/Trans Cardiff Natur Soc/Vol41 p26;
07/PM List/RCAHM//1976/Glam Invent/No927;
Evans EM, 2003-04, GGAT 73 Early Medieval Ecclesiastical Sites Project

Events :

Related records
GGAT Historic Environment Record (HER) 272m
Inscribed Stones and Stone Scuplture Ref No. G98

Compiled date : 12-03-2004


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