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Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales
Guy of Warwick (whose family owned property in Glamorgan and the Abergavenny district) was reputed to have killed a magic beast (the Dun Cow) of which this is the rib. Cf. ribs in Mallwyd Church, Merioneth. This bone inscribed and was considered old by the time of Archdeacon William Coxe's visits to Monmouthshire between autumn 1798 and 1799.
Site Name: Caerleon Church, Caerleon
Notes: Coxe, W., 1801. An Historical Tour in Monmouthshire, London: Luke Hansard for T. Cadell and W. Davies, p96, notes: 'He ['the old clerk'] likewise pointed out to me a large bone with an inscription: "This bone is part of a rib which has been preserved in this church for many years." He boasted that it was part of the rib of the dun cow slain by Guy earl of Warwick; but in fact it is half the rib of a small whale.'
