Lapidarium Walliæ: the early inscribed and sculptured stones of Wales, delineated and described |
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Side 8
... measures 12 inches by 8 inches . It is possible that the name in the top line may have been PAULINI , as the stone must have extended further to the right so as to have left room for more letters on that side , and the name Paulinus ...
... measures 12 inches by 8 inches . It is possible that the name in the top line may have been PAULINI , as the stone must have extended further to the right so as to have left room for more letters on that side , and the name Paulinus ...
Side 11
... measures 4 feet in height , the middle of the basal portion 28 inches , and the middle of the top cross 31 inches wide , and is 6 inches thick . The edge itself of the top part is likewise ornamented with a Chinese - like pattern found ...
... measures 4 feet in height , the middle of the basal portion 28 inches , and the middle of the top cross 31 inches wide , and is 6 inches thick . The edge itself of the top part is likewise ornamented with a Chinese - like pattern found ...
Side 15
... measures 11 yard high , 14 inches wide , and 10 inches thick , stands in the porch of Llantwit Church , and has been cracked across near its top . It is ornamented on all its sides with ingeniously arranged interlaced ribbon designs in ...
... measures 11 yard high , 14 inches wide , and 10 inches thick , stands in the porch of Llantwit Church , and has been cracked across near its top . It is ornamented on all its sides with ingeniously arranged interlaced ribbon designs in ...
Side 31
... measures 24 feet high and 1 foot wide , built into the wall of a dissenting chapel on Mount Gellyonen , not far from Llandewick near the Pontadawr Station of the Swansea Railway . It is very much rubbed , and the design is with ...
... measures 24 feet high and 1 foot wide , built into the wall of a dissenting chapel on Mount Gellyonen , not far from Llandewick near the Pontadawr Station of the Swansea Railway . It is very much rubbed , and the design is with ...
Side 51
... measures 6 feet 4 inches long and 15 inches broad at its widest part , the stone gradually tapering to the end . It has suffered much from the weather , many small round holes now occurring on the stone , especially on the side shown ...
... measures 6 feet 4 inches long and 15 inches broad at its widest part , the stone gradually tapering to the end . It has suffered much from the weather , many small round holes now occurring on the stone , especially on the side shown ...
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Lapidarium Walliæ: the early inscribed and sculptured stones of Wales ... John Obadiah Westwood Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1876 |
Lapidarium Walliæ: The Early Inscribed and Sculptured Stones of Wales ... John O. Westwood Ingen forhåndsvisning tilgjengelig - 2016 |
Lapidarium Walliæ: The Early Inscribed and Sculptured Stones of Wales ... John Obadiah Westwood Ingen forhåndsvisning tilgjengelig - 2018 |
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18 inches accompanying figure angle Anglo-Saxon appears Archæologia Cambrensis Bardsey Island Bishop Bishop Gibson bottom Brash Brecknockshire Brit Brynach Caerleon Caernarvon Camb Cambrian Archæological Association Carausius Cardiganshire Carmarthen Carmarthenshire carved century chapel character church churchyard circle commemorated compartments conjoined CROSSED STONE David's defaced early edge erected feet high FILI filius fragment Gibson's Camden given Gough's Camden H. L. Jones Hübner IACIT inches high inches long inches wide incised lines indebted Inscr inscribed stone interlaced interlaced ribbon Irish Isca Sil Latin letters limbs Llandawke Llandeilo Llanfihangel Llannor marks Merthyr Mawr miles minuscule monument Museum Nevern notice oblique Ogham ornamented parish Pembrokeshire PLATE portion Prof Professor Rhys represented Rhys Arch ribbon pattern Roman capitals Roman inscription rubbing rude saint sculptured second line slab south side stands suggested terminal third line upper line Venedotis Wales wall Welsh whilst word
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Side 201 - At Pías lolyn, the next halt, a long building (now used as a barn) with the remains of a strong tower, evidently erected for defensive purposes, was duly inspected, and then a move was made for Gilar, the arched gateway to the house proving attractive.
Side 46 - Wigorn. in Angl. Sacra, vol. ip 508). He died 19th March, 1286-7, and was buried on the north side of the high altar in the Lady Chapel, or Welsh Chapel as it is termed, of the cathedral.
Side 100 - My first acquaintance with this cross, which stands near the south side of the church, extends back to the incumbency of the Rev. J. Jones (Tegid), my visit to whom recalled scenes of former Oxford days, and who subsequently furnished me with the following admeasurements of the cross. Height from the surface of the ground to the top of the shaft, 10 feet...
Side 102 - Fenton adds the following notice of a legend respecting this cross : — " George Owen has a whimsical reference to this stone when talking of the patron day of this parish, the 7th of April, on which day the cuckoo is said to begin his note, saying, — ' I might well here omit an old report as yet fresh, of this odious bird, that, in the old world, the parish priest of this church would not begin mass until this bird, called the " citizen's ambassador," had first appeared and began her note on...
Side 20 - Bardic symbol is formed of three radiating lines /j\ which, it is said, are intended to represent the three diverging rays of light, which Einigan Gawr saw descending towards the earth ; and it is somewhat curious that these three lines contain all the elements of the Bardic Alphabet, as there is not a single letter in it that is not formed of some of these lines.
Side 176 - The statement that the deceased was buried under a mound of stones (in hoc congeries lapidum) is, so far as I am aware, the only instance on record of such a fact, and proves that the raising of cairns or mounds of stones is not necessarily evidence of the paganism of the person interred beneath the mound.
Side 116 - ... agreeing in this respect with the initial S in the Paulinus inscription, published in this Journal, ii., Third Series, p. 249. The third letter, G, formed of a semicircle, with a short oblique tail, scarcely extending below the line ; and the M in the second line, with the first and last strokes splaying outwards, are the only ones which offer any peculiarity, and in these respects they agree with many of the oldest Roman monuments. " Hence, were we not guided by the formula, the comparative...
Side 104 - The w in the second line has the two middle strokes crossed at the top, the two M'S have the two middle strokes only reaching half the length of the side strokes, and the i in the third line is well tipped at top and bottom as well as dilated in the middle. The letters are nearly 3 inches long. I can find no previous notice of this stone (JOW, in Arch.
Side 102 - ... this parish, and one year staying very long and the priest and the people expecting her accustomed coming (for I account this bird of the feminine gender) came at last, lighting on the said stone, her accustomed perching-place, and being scarce able once to sound the note, presently fell dead.
Side 13 - St. Gall, Columbanus, and many others, who were either making attempts at Latin rhyming verse themselves, as an ingenious novelty, or who were at least witnessing the attempts of others, were themselves of Celtic origin, and ought to have been able to tell people that there was nothing new in it. "Sharon Turner, in his Vindication of the Genuineness of the Ancient British Poems...