Site Record

St Nicholas 2 is a roman-letter inscribed pillar. It is now located inside St Nicholas? Church (NPRN 423639), set against the west wall of the chancel on the north side. It was first recorded at Llandrudian Farm, the site of a cist cemetery (NPRN 423643), around 1698. It was rediscovered in 1897 in use as a gatepost at the farm, adjacent to St Nicholas 3 (NPRN 423642). It was moved to St Nicholas? Church shortly afterwards.

The stone is an unshaped, roughly quadrangular pillar of pyroxene-rich gabbro. Dimensions are given as 133cm height x 38cm width x 25.5 > 12.5cm diameter. There are four gate-hanger holes in the top of face A, and two in the bottom. One of the top gate-hanger holes has damaged the inscription, which is towards the top of face A. The inscription, which is in one broad line reading vertically downwards, has been translated as `of Melus (or melius)?. It is thought to be late 5th- or the first half of the 6th-century.

Sources include:
Edwards, N. 2007, Corpus of Early Medieval Inscribed Stones and Stone Sculpture in Wales

N Vousden, 14 November 2018