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Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales
Short pillar of fine-grained sandstone, with incised designs on one face, with at least two phases of stone cutting. First stage involved pecking a simple linear Latin cross and two smaller equal-armed crosses with dots in their interspaces. It may have marked a grave, or demarcated land as Christian estate, or served as focus of worship. Possibly 7th-9th c date. Later reworking involved modifying the central area of the cross by incorporating it into a halfround shield motif, leaving the extremities of the cross projecting above and below. The spaces above the cross arm were decorated with five drilled dots, as in a dice.
Carved sandstone pillar, 450-1400 CE. The cross was carved first and later recut as a shield.
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