One of two waterworn boulders with Latin inscription of late fifth-century character. The stone was moved to Cefn Amlwch in the late nineteenth-century and subsequently moved to St Hywyn's Church Aberdaron c.1990.
SLE 2007
The inscription reads VERACIVS/PBR/HIC/IACIT. V and E are conjoined in the first line.
(Source: inventory of the Ancient Monuments in Caernarvonshire, vol. III (RCAHMW: 1964)
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application/pdfCEMS - Corpus of Early Medieval Inscribed Stones Publication CollectionLine drawing showing the lettering on the Veracius Stone.
