Archaeologia Cambrensis Author:John Skinner Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: GARREGLLWYD STONE, ABERHAFESP.1 BY W. SCOTT OWEN, ESQ., CEFNGW1FED. Some time ago my attention was drawn to this inscribed stone, from reading in vol. xvii... more » of the Montgomeryshire Collections a description of it by Mr. llichard Williams. No solution of the meaning of the inscription was given in his short notice. I therefore made drawings and rubbings of the inscription, and sent them, with a description, to several well known antiquaries ; but I met with little success, and I believe that most of them thought that the inscription was after the nature of "John Jones his mark." I propose to describe the stone, and afterwards give an extract from a letter from Prof. Hrlbner of Berlin, to whom, through a friend, I sent a squeeze, giving the opinion of so high an authority upon ancient inscriptions. The stone is erect, and of a very hard nature, about 2 ft. 8 in. high, and the same in width, and stands in 1 Reprinted from the Montgomeryshire Collections, vol. xxiv, Oct. 1890, pp. 317-20, by the kind permission of the Council of the Powys-land Club, and with the sanction of the Author. a most commanding position, on the top of a ridge overlooking the valley of the Severn, distant about four miles from Caersws, and is known as Garregllwyd (" the blessed or holy stone"), pointing to its being revered for some reason or another. It now stands in a ploughed field, about 10 yards from the roadway; but in days gone by, the spot where it stands must have been a part of what was known as Penllanlikey Common. Upon the slanting face on the top of the stone, looking towards the west, is an inscription, as shown on the accompanying drawing, which is as accurate as I could possibly get it as to size and shape of the letters. The letters are about three inches long, and cut about...« less