Glamorgan, Wales Ogham/Rune Stones

(November 14, 2025) Macalister reports that this stone's discovery was described by Lhuyd in Gibson's Camden as being "at a place called Panwen Byrdhin in the parish of Kadokston or Lhan Gadok about six miles above Neath." It was then known under the name Maen dau Lygadyr "the stone of the two ox-eyes." These ox-eyes were "two small circular entrenchments, like cockpits," of a kind unknown to Lhuyd elsewhere/  

The stone had been in the middle of one of these enclosures but when Lhuyd wrote, it had been appropriated as a gatepost. About 1835, Lady Mackworth , owner of the estate called "The Gnoll" near Neath, took the stone to decorate a grotto. "Being too heavy, [it] was partially broken before removal" (1920), to the detriment of the inscription and shortly afterwards the grotto collapsed and the stone was buried. Westwood in 1846 found it hidden in rubbish (1865) and Rhys (1874) was obliged to have it dug up for inspection. In 1920 it was removed to the museum of The Institution, Swansea, where it now stands. 

It is made of a stratified slate-like sandstone being 3′ 6″ × 0′ 7 1/2″ × 0′ 8 3/4"

Translation in Druid Akkadian (Northern Text 119)

1. AKu  ARu  ITu  INu -  Ḫu  Zu  Bu  ERu.  Ya'u  (The Z is Danish in style)
2. ...K  A .....

In English

1. Divination-owls can control the omens of the Moon-eye (Su).  -  Hu can emanate the nourishments harbored by Yahu (Y'u).

Previously Attempted Translation  

1. CARITIN FILI BERIC[CH ]
2. ... CAL ...

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(November 14, 2025) Macalister reports that this stone was found in a field on the west side of Capel Brithdir, a church remote from the ordinary lines of traffic, in the region drained by the Rhymney. It is now in the National Museum of Wales. A concrete slab was erected to mark its original site.

It measures 7′ 5″ × 3′ 9″ × 1′ 9″.

Translation in Druid Akkadian (Northern Text 120)

1. [ogham] Tu  E  Ṭu .....
2. Ḫu  IKu  Ya  AKu  ITu
3. Du  Gi  Ma'u.  GuTu  Ya
4. Ku  Du  Šu  LeYu
5. Tu  E  Zu.  E  RaQu  Ḫu'u

In English

1. [ogham] Astrology-magic will disable Thu.   ..... 
2. Hu cannot irrigate the divination-owl's omens.
3. Manifest energy for pushing. Don't be nasty.
4. Involve the life-manifestations in the same-way as to fate  
5. Astrology-magic is disabled by life-power-emanations. Disable the difficulty for astrology-magic-owls

Previously Attempted Translation  

1. TEGERNACVS FILI MARTI HIC IACIT

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(November 14, 2025) Macalister reports that this stone was founds on a rockery in front of the rectory house. It is an old Roman altar of very rough workmanship. The material is a gritty, friable sandstone, and the surface is much scaled to the detriment of the Ogham inscription.

Translation in Druid Akkadian (Northern Text 121)

1. [ogham] Ṭu  [I]Ṣ  IKu

In English

1. [ogham]  Thu make-scarce irrigation-network (life network)

Previously Attempted Translation  

1. GRAVICA 

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(November 14, 2025) Macalister reports that this stone is one of several  collected from several different sites in the parish but are now gathered together into a small cluster at the northwest corner of the churchyard of Margam.

This stone is a pillar of red sandstone with rounded sides being 5' 0" x 1' 7" x 0' 10".

Translation in Druid Akkadian (Northern Text 121)

1. Ḫu  IKu  Ya  AKu  ITu.  Ku  A  Nu  Tu  Wa  Su.  Wa  Su  Pu  ATu.  ERu  Pu  ADu.  Nu  Wa  Su.

In English

1. Hu cannot irrigate the divination-owl's omens. (Such) Involvement will affect those fate-revelations from astrology-magic cursing Su. Cursing Su will open the monitors (owls). The harbor will open the instigators (eagle-vultures)  Fate-revelations will curse Su.

Previously Attempted Translation  

1. HIC IACIT CANTVSVS PATER PAVLINVS

References 

(November 15, 2025) Macalister reports that this stone is one of several  collected from several different sites in the parish but are now gathered together into a small cluster at the northwest corner of the churchyard of Margam.

This stone was found on the summit of Ton Mawr, a height in Mynydd Margam at the head of a tributary of Afon Cynffig. It was carried down to the Margam Museum and deposited there.

The stone's dimensions are 3′ 4″ × 0′ 11″ × 0′ 8″

Translation in Druid Akkadian (Northern Text 122)

1. Ba'u  Du  U'a  K  -  Ḫu  IKu  Ya  AKu  ITu ("A's" are upside down)
2. Ḫu  Zu  USu.  Ku  A  Ta'u  Tu  IQu.  IRu  Nu  Ya
3. Pu  Re'u  Nu  E.  Pu  Wa  Su.  ETu  ERu  Nu  A  Zu
4. Wa  E  Di'u  Mu  AWu  -

In English

1. The nest can manifest curses on involvement - Hu cannot irrigate the divination-owl's omens.
2. Hu can emanate normally. Involve those pasture-powers with astrology-magic's flock (owls). The astrological-fate-powers are not being revealed.
3. The openings of the shepherd-priests will reveal the disabling. The openings will curse Su. The boundary will harbor the revelations of those emanation.
4. The curses will disable the divine-motion-powers for the fertility-fluid's motion.

Previously Attempted Translation  

1. BODVOCH HIC IACIT FILIVS CATOTIGIRNI PRONEPVS ETERNALI VEDOMAL 

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