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Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales
Base broken horizontally from side to side, from a free-standing monument presumably to Hercules, whose name was cited probably on the capital while the rest of the votive inscription comes on a plinth below the feet of Hercules and those of the Nemean Lion. The back is plain, but on either side is a Panel with the remains of a serpent's coils, either of the Lernaean Hydra or of the dragon in the garden of the Hesperides. As an urn with burnt bones was found beneath this base it is possible that the votive inscription, though not sepulchral, was later reused to cover a cremated burial.
Site Name: Caer Gai, Llanuwchllyn
Notes: Found in 1885 in ploughing a field, about 150m. north-east of the auxiliary fort in the area of a known cemetery.
