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ECM: Llandyfaelog Fach; Briamail Stone (replica)
The face is filled with incised or lightly carved decoration divided into four panels.
1. Double-ribbon Latin cross with the arm-ends forming Stafford knots, the knot at th efoot being double-beaded. The inter-arm spaces have interlace decoration
a. Top right.Double-beaded figure of eight incorporating a free ring
b. Bottom right. Same but incorporating a Stafford knot
c. Bottom left, Same but triple-beaded though unfinished.
d Top left. Triple beaded triquetra knot.
2. A standing male figure, in straight knee-legth tunic, the right arm across the chest holding a club, mace or spear. the left arm half-bent across the body holding a dagger. The shoulders and upper arms occupy the whole width of the panel, leaving four separate fidls each decorated.
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Site Name: St Maelog's Church, Llandyfaelog-Fach
Notes: In the earliest record (Archaeologia, 1770, p.304) the location of the original stone is described as serving "to cover a low wall contiguous to the outside south wall of the [parish] church". It may then have been moved inside the church for, according to church records, it was "moved from the inside of the steeple to the wall of the Penoyre vault [i.e. back into the churchyard] during the nineteenth century" (correspondence with J.Lewis, February 1985). The stone was finally moved back into the church c.1952, where it is now fixed against the north wall of the tower arch.