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Early Medieval (Dark Age)Site Name: Strata Florida Sculptured StoneCountry: Wales County: Ceredigion Type: Early Christian Sculptured Stone
Map Ref: SN74646577
Latitude: 52.275742N Longitude: 3.838816W
Condition:
| 5 | Perfect |
| 4 | Almost Perfect |
| 3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
| 2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
| 1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
| 0 | No data. |
| -1 | Completely destroyed |
| 5 | Superb |
| 4 | Good |
| 3 | Ordinary |
| 2 | Not Good |
| 1 | Awful |
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| 5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
| 4 | Short walk on a footpath |
| 3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
| 2 | A long walk |
| 1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
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| 5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
| 4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
| 3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
| 2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village |
| 1 | co-ordinates of the nearest town |
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Early Christian inscribed stone. Within the grounds of the former Abbey at Strata Florida, but pre-dating the Abbey.
As reported in a recent project undertaken by University of Wales Trinity St Davids:
"At the east end of the church is a stone resting against the wall. It has a cross shape embedded into it and there are five sunken depressions in the stone. This is the earliest grave-marker from the graveyard.
It is 10th century and dates to long before the Abbey was founded. The stone seems to have been discovered when the graveyard was being extended in the mid - 19th century, and may indicate that there was a church and burial ground here at the time of the Welsh kings".
COFLEIN NPRN 275649
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