Denbighshire Wales Ogham/Rune Stones

(November 12, 2025) Macalister reports that this stone was originally on a mound called Bryn y Beddau, known (from an old misreading of the inscription ) as Bedd Emlyn meaning "Emlyn's grave." It was removed by Lord Bagot, builder of Pool Park House near Ruthin to the grounds of that mansion about 1810. It is now in the National Museum of Wales.

The original site of this stone is described (after Lhuyd) in Gough's Camden (ii 578 ) thus : "On a dreary heath three miles from Ruthin, and a mile out of the road are two stones at each end of a grave, four feet asunder, the shortest threefeet and an half high, the other six and an half, and out of its upright on the broadest face of which (being two feet and an half) are these letters two inches long in lines of ten inches. each . . . . The grave is in a hollow eight feet diameter, and just below it is the tumulus called "Krig Yryn.  Lhuyd goes on to describe how "a farmer's man who conducted me to the inscription assured me that it had never been made out" and was astonished into profanity when Lhuyd pointed out to him the similarity of the word tovisaci, or tovisag as he read it, to the Welsh tywysog. According to the Gentleman's Magazine it was remembered locally in 1803 (p . 418  that there had formerly been a third stone grouped with these two.

The stone when Macalister saw it stood on a knoll in the garden close to a chair-shaped stone known (at least in modern times) as Cadair y Frenhines, "the Queen's Chair" which was brought from a stone circle in the parish of Gyffylliog known as Llys y Frenhines meaning"the Queen's Court."

This stone is of irregular shape being 4' 10" x 1' 10" x 1' 10", and is much weathered with many quartz nodules embedded within it.

Translation in Druid Akkadian (Northern Text 115)

1. [Ogham] Še'u  ReYu  PaYu  Nu  Ya
2. [Ogham] .... Tu  EKu  AŠu  Ya
3. INu  ILu  IMu  IRu
4. Du  ASu  Ya  U'a  T

In English

1. [Ogham] The intoxication of the shepherd-priest's network-birds (owls) is not being revealed.
2. [Ogham] ... astrology-magic. Starvation is not spewing-forth
3. The Moon-eye's high-powers can emotionally-trigger the fate-powers
4. Life-manifestations can't fate-shift the motion-powers of astrology-magic.

Previously Attempted Translation  

1. [Ogham] S[U]B[I]L[I]NI 
2. [Ogham] [TO]VISACI
3. SIMILINI 
4. TOVISACI

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(November 12, 2025) Macalister reports that this stone was found standing on the north side of the parish church. It is the westernmost of a row of four stones, all about the same size and set about eight feet apart. None of the others bears any inscription. 

Its dimensions are 3′ 5 1/2″ × 0' 10" x 0' 10". 

Translation in Druid Akkadian (Northern Text 116)

1. Wa  INu  Nu.  EGu  ASu  LeYu.  Ṣu  ILu  Ya
2. Su  ENu  EGu  ASu  LeYu 

In English

1. Curse the Moon-eye's (Su) revelations.  Neglect is fate-shifting fate. Activity (night sky powers) is not being elevated.
2. Su can reassign the neglect shifting fate. 

Previously Attempted Translation  

1. VINNEMAGLI FILI 
2. SENEMAGLI

References 

(November 13, 2025) Macalister reports that this stone was found acting as the cover of a stone-lined grave, one of a series discovered in making a road in the township called Dol tre Beddau.

This is a granite stone having the dimensions 5′ 0″ × 1′ 8″ × 0' 3"

Translation in Druid Akkadian (Northern Text 117)

1. Bu  Re'u   Ḫu'u  Gu  ASu  LeYu
2. Yu  A  Tu.  Tu  Ya.  IKu  Ya  AKu  ITu
3. E  Tu.  Wa  Še'u  Ru.  ENu  Ṣu.  Ku  AWu.  Gu  E

In English

1. Nourishing the shepherd-priests for the astrology-magic-owls can energize the fate-shifting of fate.
2. Will that not affect astrology-magic?  Don't do astrology-magic. Don't irrigate the divination-owl's omens.
3. Disable astrology-magic. Curse the intoxication of the eagle-vultures. Reassign activity.  Involve the emotion-powers. Energize the disabling.

Previously Attempted Translation  

1. BROHOMAGLI
2. IATTI IC IAC
3. ET VXOR EIVS CAVNE

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