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<< Our Photo Pages >> The Annicu Stone - Sculptured Stone in England in Cornwall

Submitted by Sunny100 on Thursday, 01 July 2010  Page Views: 5242

Multi-periodSite Name: The Annicu Stone Alternative Name: St Nivet's Stone
Country: England
NOTE: This site is 1.977 km away from the location you searched for.
County: Cornwall Type: Sculptured Stone
Nearest Town: Bodmin  Nearest Village: Lanivet
Map Ref: SX039642
Latitude: 50.444796N  Longitude: 4.763304W
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
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 4 Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
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The Annicu Stone
The Annicu Stone submitted by Sunny100 : The Annicu Stone, a 5th-6th century pillar-stone with a Romano-British Inscription. (Vote or comment on this photo)
Sculptured Stone in Cornwall. The Annicu Stone, Lanivet, Cornwall, at SX.039642. In the church of St Nivet can be found a 5th or 6th century pillar stone inscribed with a Latin inscription commemorating Annicu, of whom nothing is known, although the name is probably Romano-British. The stone was discovered near the S porch, but was brought into the church. It could be the base of a cross.

Outside in the churchyard there are two crosses; one is a wheel-head cross from the 10th century, the other a 13th century four-holed wheel cross. The present church dates from the 15th century, but undoubtedly a church has stood on this site since the 5th century, when St Nivet, daughter of the Welsh king, Brychan, came to settle here, at what was then a pagan, sacred place.
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The Annicu Stone
The Annicu Stone submitted by AngieLake : This 10th Century wheel-headed cross, in the bluebells on 14th May, had much more atmosphere than the Annicu Stone, which we saw inside the church when it was opened later that day for bell-ringers' practice. [Bell-ringing also at St Kew that evening; Wednesday seems to be the best day for finding some churches open.] (Vote or comment on this photo)

The Annicu Stone
The Annicu Stone submitted by AngieLake : The 10th Century wheel-headed cross in the rear of Lanivet Church is beautiful. Especially on the day we visited 14th May, when all the bluebells were out. It has a primitive figure on this side. (See next photo). (3 comments - Vote or comment on this photo)

The Annicu Stone
The Annicu Stone submitted by Theenchantednomads : Annicu stone 5/6c at Lanivet. (Vote or comment on this photo)

The Annicu Stone
The Annicu Stone submitted by SandyG : Protected from the elements in the church. (Vote or comment on this photo)

The Annicu Stone
The Annicu Stone submitted by Bladup : The Annicu Stone. (Vote or comment on this photo)

The Annicu Stone
The Annicu Stone submitted by Bladup : The other side of the old cross at the back of the church.

The Annicu Stone
The Annicu Stone submitted by Bladup : The old cross at the back of the church.

The Annicu Stone
The Annicu Stone submitted by Bladup : The old cross at the front of the church. I loved the pattern on this stone and believe the person that did it may have made prehistoric rock art in a past life.

The Annicu Stone
The Annicu Stone submitted by Bladup : The Annicu Stone.

The Annicu Stone
The Annicu Stone submitted by SandyG : Cross in front of the church (23rd May 2008).

The Annicu Stone
The Annicu Stone submitted by AngieLake : A close-up of the figure on the 10th century wheel-headed cross at Lanivet.

The Annicu Stone
The Annicu Stone submitted by AngieLake : The Annicu stone photographed on 14th May.

The Annicu Stone
The Annicu Stone submitted by rogerkread : The reverse side of the younger cross.

The Annicu Stone
The Annicu Stone submitted by rogerkread : The 13th century cross behind the church.

The Annicu Stone
The Annicu Stone submitted by rogerkread : The 10th century cross in front of the church.

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Re: The Annicu Stone & Significance of Lanivet's Name by AngieLake on Thursday, 29 May 2014
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While researching for clues to the site of a possible Celtic Sanctuary in mid-Devon's 'nymet' and 'nympton' villages' area, I came across info about Lanivet, the only 'nymet' name in Cornwall, so we had to check this out in May.
As well as two wonderful old crosses in the churchyard, there was an inscribed Roman stone inside the church, and on the outskirts of the town by a stream and in a wooded area, was an old abbey, St. Benet's, a listed building, and now a country house hotel.

I made this note before we set off for Cornwall:
Lanivet was a 'neved' word, linking to Nymet. Curiously, there is a henge not far away, at Castilly, and there’s also a Roman fort at Nanstallon, not far either. This echoes the landscape at Bow/North Tawton.

Other research unearthed the following:
From: http://www.roman-britain.org/celtic/british_groves.htm
http://WWW.Roman-Britain.ORG
The Groves of Britain
[excerpts]:
Interestingly, the Celtic word for an ancient sacred grove was nemeton, which obviously evolved from Greek. Notice again the reference to threading or intertwining (cf. grove above), which are suggestive of the interleaved branches of the trees which formed the ancient arboreal religious centres of the Celts.

Cornish: lann church; lannergh grove, clearing; neved pagan sacred place.

Lanivet Cornwall. Lannived 1268. 'Church-site at the pagan sacred place'. Cornish *lann + neved.

Excerpt from Wisht Maen:

Tracey continues: "Could I go so far as to suggest that the Omphalos Stone of Devon is this forgotten and grimy stone cross at Copplestone? It is similarly decorated to the Celtic Cross omphalos stone at Lanivet, (also derived from the word 'nymet'/'neved') in Cornwall, and geographically the central part of that county. The Nymeds are considered to be at the centre of Devon."

These names have excited interest for many years, for the root of “Nymet” is NEMETO, a British word for “a pagan sacred place, sacred grove or shrine”, which also gave rise to Old Cornish NEVED (Lanivet) and Welsh NYFED, leading to speculation that this area might harbor some persisting traces of pagan or Celtic Christian worship as has been found in other parts of the country…”

Andy Norfolk also writes about Nymets and one piece stood out: “In Old Irish, the phrase “br tha nemed” [3 words] means the fate or wyrd of the nobles. In present day Cornish the word “nef”, plural “nevow” was recorded as meaning “heaven”, “sky”, or “climate” by Morton Nance in his dictionary of Unified Cornish. In the newer dictionary of the revised Cornish, Kernewek Kemmyn, the word “nev” is shown as meaning heaven and “neves” is given as meaning “sacred grove”. I think there is more than a hint here that the sacred grove or shrine would have been used for worship of a sky god/dess… (In the credits it says: “Andy Norfolk is co-ordinator of the Cornish Earth Mysteries Group”.)

On the afternoon of 14th May we'd looked at St Benet's Abbey and then, as we walked back to the village we heard the bells ringing, and finally got our opportunity to go inside the church.
The booklet purchased there says that the church marks the middle of ‘The Saints Way’, the route taken in earlier centuries by religious pilgrims from Ireland, walking from Padstow to Fowey to avoid sailing around the dangerous seas of Lands End on their way to the great shrines in France and Spain.
‘Little is known of earlier Celtic or Norman churches which stood on this site.’ (Today’s church is a 15th century building which was wholly restored in 1865 by James Piers St Aubyn.) The font is 14th century.
"..." ‘The site of this church has been a centre of worship and devotion for more than 900 years. It stands in the geographical centre of Cornwall, where a 10th century Corn

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