Lapidarium Walliæ: the early inscribed and sculptured stones of Wales, delineated and described |
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Lapidarium Walliæ: the early inscribed and sculptured stones of Wales ... John Obadiah Westwood Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1879 |
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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accompanying figure angle Anglo-Saxon appears Arch Archæologia Cambrensis base Bishop Bodvoc boss bottom Brecknockshire Brecon Brychan Brycheiniog Camb Cambrian Archæological Association Camden carved century character church churchyard circle circular compartments Cowbridge Coychurch CROSSED STONE defaced edge face feet high filius Gelhi Gaer Gibson's Camden GLAMORGANSHIRE Gnoll Gough's Camden Greek cross H. L. Jones IACIT inches high inches thick inches wide incised lines inscribed stone Irish Kenfig letters Leucarum Lhwyd limbs Llandough Llanfrynach Llangan Llanmadoc Llantwit Loughor maen-hir Margam Maximian Merthyr Mawr miles miliary stone minuscule monument Neath notice oblique Ogham ornamented palæographical peculiarities plain PLATE XXXII Port Talbot portion proper name quadrangular represented Rhys Roman capitals Roman inscription Romano-British round rubbing rude Scethrog second line shaft spaces square stands Stephens stones of Wales Swansea Tegernacus transverse Tretower Tydvil uncials upper wall Welsh Welsh stones wheel-cross whilst word yards
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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 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...
Side 56 - ... the outer edge and encloses the inscription. From Jones's ' Brecknockshire' we learn that Cynhyllyn, or Genyllin Voel, the only son and heir of Rhys Goch, was Lord of Ystradyw, as well as Prince of Powis, in the middle of the eleventh century, and that the church itself was consecrated by Herwald (who was consecrated Bishop of Llandaff in 1056) under the name of Methur Issur, evidently corrupted from Merthyr Ishaw, or St. Ishaw the Martyr. Hence we learn that the font is coeval with the dedication...
Side 32 - ... legs. Above the head is a series of short straight spokes or bars, some being longer than the rest and bent at right angles, forming a kind of canopy over the figure, which is raised, or rather the surface of the stone is cut away, leaving the figure itself in relief. The surface of the face is also cut away, leaving the sides of the cheeks, with the eye-brows, eyes, nose, and mouth also in relief.
Side 11 - This is one of the most interesting memorials of the early British Church in existence, commemorating as it does not fewer than four of the holy men, some of whose names are amongst the chief glories of the Principality.
Side 48 - ... future preservation ; and the stone is now kept inside that portion of the church which is screened off at the west end for a vestry. This stone is about six feet long, one foot six inches wide at the upper end, but tapering down to a point at the lower ; uniformly about six inches in thickness ; and is from one of the hardest beds of the Old Red or Silurian series. The annexed engraving, carefully reduced from drawings and rubbings, and made on the scale of one foot to the inch (which we have...
Side 40 - Tydyil), .within 100 yards of the .twelfth milestone on the turnpike-road from Brecknock to Merthyr, as a gatepost in a wall on the right-hand side of the road, and about 50 yards on the other side of the river Llysevoc. On unsuccessfully searching for this stone, I was informed that it had been accidentally destroyed by workmen at Merthy Tydvil on its way to the Swansea Museum, whither it was being carried by a Mr.
Side 47 - T. Price, vicar AD 1830, having been presented to him for that purpose by the owner, the Rev. T. Lewis.
Side 24 - Anglesea, son of Owain Danwyn the son of Einion Yrth, the son of Cunedda Wledig; but the locality militates against the supposition that he was the maker of the cross ai Margain.
Side 50 - The adjoining farm-house abuts on the turnpike-road, on the south side of a small rivulet, and a long barn and cow-house close adjoining are on the north side of a small brook (Cwm-Car) which crosses the road.