Welsh Journals

splendidly moulded, but others unknown have been brought to light, and cast, under circumstances difficult and almost romantic. We here note only the latter class-discoveries. THE GURDAN STONE. At Llanthetty, in the south-east of Breconshire, 6 miles N.W. of Crickhowell, a stone fixed in the Church wall has been long known. It is figured in Westwood's great work, the Lapi- darium Walliae," and reads in curiously treated minuscule letters, '-gurdan Gurdan Sacerdos. Gurdan the Priest. The letters S S being both prostrate. Mr. Clarke, suspecting something further could be found if the stone could be extracted from its position, made application to the authorities, and after a good deal of trouble, for the withdrawal meant taking down a large portion of the Church wall, brought the other sides of the stone to view. Later, he found another decorated stone of about the same size, and, on extracting that also, found that he was possessed of a four- sided pillar in two moieties, covered with inscription and decoration, which, in cast, is before us. The new inscription disclosed reads Fecit crux panni idxani §uRhi Both in Latinity and in other respects this seems difficult, but it can hardly be doubted that it reads- Fecit crux pro anima id est anima Gurhi. The incorrect crux where crucem ought to occur is analogous to what is seen upon the stone at Margam, reading in part, "crux critic proparabir grutne In the second line, the id followed by a character like an x, seems to Principal Rhys to be a short sign for est which is known in manuscript forms.