Sagranus stone
The Sagranus stone is in the Saint Thomas Church of St Dogmaels ( Llandudoch in Welsh ) in Pembrokeshire in Wales . The village of St. Dogmael is on the Pembrokeshire Coast Path about a mile southwest of Cardigan . The Sagranus Stone is a columnar stone with an Ogham and a Latin inscription in memory of Sagranus, the son of Cunotamus. There are other early medieval stones in the church , but they are more slab-shaped.
Find place
Near the church are the ruins of the 12th century St Mary's Abbey of the French Order of Tironesians (Abbaye de la Sainte-Trinité de Tiron), but there was a Celtic monastery here long before that in the 5th century , founded by St Dogmael, a Welsh monk who was born in the area. The early Christian monastery, however, was destroyed by the Danes in 987 AD.
description
The Sagranus stone is considered important by scholars for early inscriptions. It is a 2.1 m high dolerite column from the late 5th or early 6th century AD, i.e. from the dark centuries after the retreat of the Romans . The stone probably comes from the Celtic monastery. There are two holes in the stone which means that it was used as a goal post in the past. It could even have been used as a clapper bridge over a stream. Perhaps this caused the stone to break in two. But its bilingual inscriptions are now secured.
In 1848 scientists managed to decipher (interpret) the Ogham alphabet. The inscription on the stone was in the early Irish Gaelic language . Both inscriptions are roughly the same in wording. On the front there is a two-row inscription in Roman capitals that run downwards: SAGRANI FILI CVNOTAMI. On the edge is the Oghamin script, which reads: SAGRAGNI MAQI CVNATAMI. They indicate that the stone was erected to mark the tomb of the local chief Sagranus, son of Cunotamus. Developed in Ireland, Ogham is found on a number of early inscriptions in Wales where, as here, it is used with a Latin transliteration.
context
The 35 secured ogham stones of Wales are the largest number of ogham stones outside of Ireland. They are unevenly distributed at 32 in the southern half of Wales and only three in the north. This is a consequence of the political developments after the Romans withdrew from Britain.
history
During the late 4th and beginning of the 5th century, a large group of Uí Liatháin and especially Déisi moved from Ireland to Great Britain and settled in Wales , Cornwall and on the Isle of Man in addition to the Scots (to Scotland Dalriada ) . They ousted the Demetae ruling class in south Wales and founded the kingdoms of Dyfed and Brycheiniog .
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Coordinates: 51 ° 55 ′ 16.8 ″ N , 4 ° 43 ′ 5 ″ W.