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ECM: Baglan; Gai Stone
Panelled cross-slab, decorated on one face: 1. Rounded head filled with an equal-arm ring-cross in low relief, defined by broad stirrup-shaped arm-pits with raised edge moulding., the whole within a subrectangular double-beaded ring. The cross has a moulded ring and pellet device in low relief at the centre, and there are six ring devices cut into the inter-arm surrounds, four as pairs flanking the vertical arm.
Galcun’s cross, 900-1000 CE. The inscription on this cross from Baglan, near Neath, translates as 'Galcun prepared [this cross]…'
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Site Name: Cwm Gwenffrwd, Baglan
Notes: first recorded in 1864 as being removed from a holy-well in the vicinity of the farm called 'Bryn Cefneithan'. The actual site of this holy-well cannot now be identified. The NGR SS 8014 9726 is taken from the RCAHM entry and is of Bryngwynneithin Row, site of the farmhouse; NGR 8045 9696 is from John Lewis's notes and is of the site called 'Cae Cwmffynon' which is south-east of the farmhouse location. The stone was later used as a pump-stone in the yard of the house of the manager of the colliery at Bryn Keffneithan. Subsequently removed to the garden of a Miss Parsons at Neath.