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Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales
Within a trefoiled scroll inscribed: EOVES HER WONDEDE ANT WAS SWON / FOR VI MEN CLEPET TIS EOVESHOM (Eoves here dwelt and was a swain / For why men call this Eoveshom,) the swineherd Eoves with staff, as in a forest, a tree below which a sow suckles pig. Above the trefoil, a representation of the abbey church; on either side of the spire, dext. a mullet, sin. a quatrefoil. Below, the abbey church the inscription: ECCE LOC' QVE ELEGI; ('Behold the place which I have chosen: Cf. 2 Chron. 7/12; Nehemiah 1/9). To either side of which, dext. the Blessed Virgin crowned and carrying a long cross formy, attended by two saints; sin. kneels St Egwin, bishop of Worcester, seperated by a tree from his two monk-attendants.
