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Roman tombstone (Replica)
full-length figures of a man (right) and his wife cut in relief. The man's dress reaches to the knees, his left arm is bent across his body, and in this hand he holds what is probably a leather purse. The wife has a longer dress and seems to hold her right arm across her body, to clasp the husband's right hand, and has her left arm over his shoulders. Below there is a panel, 27 in. by (originally about) 20 in., which may once have had about seven lines of an inscription, but now has only three.
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Site Name: Brecon Gaer, Powys
Notes: Original found close to Y Gaer fort in the sixteenth century and later moved to a position on the north side of the Roman road from Y Gaer to Brecon, at a point 250 yards north-east of the fort. Now in Brecon Museum. The stone, when found, was heavily weathered, except for the last two lines, which must have been protected by an accumulation of soil. Since its discovery it seems to have suffered little further damage or weathering, as the earliest readings of the inscription show that the lines were no more legible then than they are now. The local name for the stone suggests that the character of the two figures has long been indistinct.