Brecknockshire, Wales Ogham/Rune Stones

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Brecknockshire is located in the south

Crickhowel Ogham/Rune Stone 327

(October 27, 2025) Macalister reports that this stone was recorded in 1774. It was lying prostrate by the side of a ploughed field on the farm of Ty'n y Wlad , Crickhowel (Crug Hywel), and there overgrown with brambles.

Jones's Brecknockshire tells this story, for what it may be worth: Certain wayfarers persuaded the farmer to dig beneath it, then standing upright, in quest of gold, thereby keeping him out of the way while they looted his house. This, it is said, caused the fall of the stone. It was later removed to the garden of Glan Usk Park, close by, where it now stands.

Present visible dimensions are 6′ 6″ × 1′ 9″ × 0′ 7.″ Its length when prostrate has been recorded as 9'.

Translation in Druid Akkadian (Northern Text 70)

(read left to right. Capital letters on object. Small letters are inferred Inner vowels. Vowels are italic bold, Dual use letters are E/H, I/Y, U/W, and '/A in which vowel appears at beginning of words except for Yahu which is keeping its traditional Hebrew transliteration)
Runic Letter style is Welsh (Celtic)Dictionary used: Latest Runic Akkadian dictionary

Ku ITu
Tu URu Pu ILu. LeYu IKu Ya A
Pu U Wa ERu ITu Ru. ILu UNu IDu Wa. Ne'u Ku A
Tu U Gi | EPu IRu Šu Ṣu Tu. Šu Nu Wa (ogham)

In English

Involve omens
Astrology-magic at dawn will open the high-powers. The plan-of-fate cannot irrigate that.
Openings and curses can harbor omens about eagle-vultures. High-powers can resist the life-channel's curses. Emotional-effects will be involved with that.
Astrology-magic and energy | Disabling the openings with astrology-fate-powers is similar to activating astrology-magic. Similar fate-revelations will be cursed.

Comment: The runic text is promoting the use of emotion magic guided by omens about fate. The ogham text (4) astrology magic is similar to what the fate powers do in regards to opening or closing the flow of life powers to earth. The resulting fate from both is similar.

Previous Attempted Translation in Latin

TVRPILLI IC CT (iacit) PVVERI IA TRILVNI DUNOCATI

The resting-place of Turpillius , the boy ( = attendant ) of Trilunos (son) of Dunocatus . "

References

Macalister, R A Stewart. 1945. Corpus Inscriptionum Insularum CelticarumVolume 1, page 315. Online at: https://www.google.com/books/edition/Corpus_Inscriptionum_Insularum_Celticaru/4jgaAAAAYAAJ?hl=en

Devynock (Defynog) Stone 328

(October 27, 2025) Macalister reports that this stone is a block of red sandstone built in beneath a string-course, on the external face of the church tower at the S.W. angle 9' 6" from the ground. The stone has been trimmed by the masons and is so placed that the lettering of the Roman inscription is upside-down .

The top of the stone has the equilateral Druid cross meaning "astrology-magic." The text does indeed discuss astrology magic.

The stone's dimensions are 5′ 6″ x 0' 10" x 0' 6".

Translation in Druid Akkadian (Northern Text 71)

(read left to right. Capital letters on object. Small letters are inferred Inner vowels. Vowels are italic bold, Dual use letters are E/H, I/Y, U/W, and '/A in which vowel appears at beginning of words except for Yahu which is keeping its traditional Hebrew transliteration)
Letter style is Welsh (Celtic)Dictionary used: Latest Runic Akkadian dictionary

(top of the ogham carved off by the church masons)
[I]R U Su Nu Ya | A Ta'u
ILu IWu E | Wa Di'u Nu Ya

In English

(Ogham text unreadable)
[The astrological-fate-powers] and Su are not being revealed. | That affects the pasture (starry night sky)
The high-power's redirection have been disabled. | Fate-curses on the divine motion powers have not been revealed.

Comment: Su is thd dark new moon god associated with human generated astrology magic used to shift the fate defined by the heavenly bodies. This text is stating that the various powers of the night sky are not causing the present problems implying the problems are due to defects in the divine life power class.

Previous Attempted Translation

RVGNIATIO [FI]LI VENDONI

References

Macalister, R A Stewart. 1945. Corpus Inscriptionum Insularum CelticarumVolume 1, page 317. Online at: https://www.google.com/books/edition/Corpus_Inscriptionum_Insularum_Celticaru/4jgaAAAAYAAJ?hl=en

Faenor Runestone 330

(October 27, 2025) Macalister reports that this stone as recorded in Jones (1847) was

"Placed as a pillar to support a gate or rails in a wall on the right - hand side of the road from Brecon to Merthyr, at the distance of about eleven miles from the former, and about fifty yards on the other side of the river Llyseuog."

Some time before 1847 it was destroyed, when about to be removed to a museum in Swansea - either intentionally, to prevent the removal as seems to be implied by Westwood (1853), or accidentally while being transported as stated in LW, p . 55.

The only record of the inscription is a wood-cut in Jones's Brecknockshire, which gives which is shown.

Translation in Druid Akkadian (Northern Text 72)

(read left to right. Capital letters on object. Small letters are inferred Inner vowels. Vowels are italic bold, Dual use letters are E/H, I/Y, U/W, and '/A in which vowel appears at beginning of words except for Yahu which is keeping its traditional Hebrew transliteration)
Letter style is WelshDictionary used: Latest Runic Akkadian dictionary

Tu IRu .... U Su
Ku ATu IRu Ya

In English

Astrology-magic's astrological-fate-powers .... and Su.
Involving the Monitor (Su) does not empower astrological-fate.

Comment: This text is apparently defending the use of Su and astrology magic to counter fate as defined by the heavenly bodies

Previous Attempted Translation

TIR . . . . . . VS CATIRI

References

Macalister, R A Stewart. 1945. Corpus Inscriptionum Insularum CelticarumVolume 1, page 319. Online at: https://www.google.com/books/edition/Corpus_Inscriptionum_Insularum_Celticaru/4jgaAAAAYAAJ?hl=en
Jones, Brecknockshire ii, 624. 1847 AC : 29 (Westwood , reporting destruction) .1853 AC 332 ( Idem).

Faenor Runestone 331

(October 27, 2025) Macalister reports that this stone was discovered by Iolo Morganwg, whose son Taliesin Williams directed Westwood's attention to it. It was then doing duty as a door-lintel in a cattle-shed on the farm of Abercar, on the west side of the road from Merthyr Tydfil to Brecon, and six miles from the former place. It was afterwards removed by Mr. C. Wilkins of Merthyr Tydfil to the lawn of his garden and it is now in the parish church of the same town, clamped to the wall, at the E. end of the N. aisle.

Its dimensions are 5' 10" x 0' 9" x 0′ 5 1/2″.

Translation in Druid Akkadian (Northern Text 73)

(read left to right. Capital letters on object. Small letters are inferred Inner vowels. Vowels are italic bold, Dual use letters are E/H, I/Y, U/W, and '/A in which vowel appears at beginning of words except for Yahu which is keeping its traditional Hebrew transliteration)
Letter style is Weslh (Celtic)Dictionary used: Latest Runic Akkadian dictionary

NuNu IKu Ku. IṢu Ya Zu Wa Su
IKu IDu Bu ITu. Tu E Bu. Wa ReYu INu. Ḫu'u Bu Tu. UMu Gu Le'u

In English

Chaos is irrigating involvement. Don't make scarce the emanations cursing Su.
Irrigating the life-channels is nourishing the fate-omens. Astrology-magic will disable the nourishing. Fate-cursed are the shepherd-priests of Moon-eye (Su). Astrology-owls will nourish astrology-magic. The storm-powers are energizing the plans-of-fate.

Comment: Apparently the ritual centers doing astrology magic (associated with the dark new moon god Su) are being destroyed in favor of life power centers, namely Christian church rituals. This change is being blamed for causing a drought or some other trouble.

Previous Attempted Translation

[A] NNICCI FILIVS [H] IC LACIT TECVRI IN HOC TVMVLO

References

Macalister, R A Stewart. 1945. Corpus Inscriptionum Insularum CelticarumVolume 1, page 320. Online at: https://www.google.com/books/edition/Corpus_Inscriptionum_Insularum_Celticaru/4jgaAAAAYAAJ?hl=en

Stone today. Picture from:https://static1.squarespace.com/static/649d4579168838251e67aa8c/t/64de3ade3c8ec84d9aabdbb6/1692285663524/The-Cwm-Du-stone-and-associated-Plaque-Statements-of-Identity-BSMF-14.pdf

Llanfihangel Runestone 334

(October 28, 2025) Macalister reports that this stone is now embedded in a buttress on the south side of the church of St. Michael Cwmdu. Its history is recorded on a brass plate fixed beside it saying:

"This stone was removed from a field called Tir Gwenlli, about one mile S.S.W. of this Church of St. Michael Cwmdu, & placed in this buttress for Preservation by the Reverend Thos. Price, Vicar, A.D. 1830, having been presented to him for that purpose by the owner, the Rev. T. Lewis. Its original site is not exactly known."

Its dimensions are 5′ 4″ × 1' 10"

Translation in Druid Akkadian (Northern Text 74)

(read left to right. Capital letters on object. Small letters are inferred Inner vowels. Vowels are italic bold, Dual use letters are E/H, I/Y, U/W, and '/A in which vowel appears at beginning of words except for Yahu which is keeping its traditional Hebrew transliteration)
Letter style is Welsh (Celtic)Dictionary used: Latest Runic Akkadian dictionary

Ku A Tu. A Ku Wa Su. Ḫu IKu Ya A Ku ITu
Ṣu Ya Lu. IWu Su. Tu EṬu EPu. Ḫu A Ku URu

In English

Involvement will affect these astrology-magic-powers. That involvement will curse Su. Hu is not irrigating that involvement of the omens.
Don't activate lack. Redirect Su. Astrology-magic will darken the baking (fate). Hu can affect the involvement of the dawn.

Comment: This text is stating that astrology-magic is the root cause of some problem, likely a drought. Astrology magic is only making fate worse. This text is advising using emotion magic rituals performed at dawn to counter astrology-magic from the dark new moon god Su. Doing this will counter fate as well. Dawn was the time when ritual mixing the life powers with the motion power was performed because that was the time when motion-powers and life-powers cooperated to birth the sun. The red of dawn was the color of the life powers. Motion powers would have been represented by the movement of the sun upward from the horizon.

Previous Attempted Translation

CATACVS HIC LACIT
FILIVS TEGERNACVS

English translation:

Cattoc here
son of Teyronoc

This translation is completely wrong in all languages.

References

Macalister, R A Stewart. 1945. Corpus Inscriptionum Insularum CelticarumVolume 1, page 322. Online at: https://www.google.com/books/edition/Corpus_Inscriptionum_Insularum_Celticaru/4jgaAAAAYAAJ?hl=en

Llanfihangel Runestone 335

(October 28, 2025) Macalister reports that this stone once served as a window-sill in the old church. It is now standing in the churchyard.

It dimensions are 4' 0" x 1' 2" x 1' 6".

The Christian cross seems to be a later addition.

Translation in Druid Akkadian (Northern Text 75)

(read left to right. Capital letters on object. Small letters are inferred Inner vowels. Vowels are italic bold, Dual use letters are E/H, I/Y, U/W, and '/A in which vowel appears at beginning of words except for Yahu which is keeping its traditional Hebrew transliteration)
Letter style is Weslh (Celtic)Dictionary used: Latest Runic Akkadian dictionary

Ḫu IKu Ya AKu E Tu

In English

Hu is not irrigating the emotion-owl's disabling of astrology-magic.

Comment: This text is stating that the life power sun and storm god Hu is not involved with astrology magic or emotion magic involving the owls.

Previous Attempted Translation

HIC LACET

References

Macalister, R A Stewart. 1945. Corpus Inscriptionum Insularum CelticarumVolume 1, page 322. Online at: https://www.google.com/books/edition/Corpus_Inscriptionum_Insularum_Celticaru/4jgaAAAAYAAJ?hl=en

Llangors Runestone 337

(October 28, 2025) Macalister reports that this stone was found in digging a grave in a churchyard and is now lying inside the church vestry door.

It dimensions are 3′ 9″ × 1' 1" x 1' 3"

Translation in Druid Akkadian (Northern Text 76)

(read left to right. Capital letters on object. Small letters are inferred Inner vowels. Vowels are italic bold, Dual use letters are E/H, I/Y, U/W, and '/A in which vowel appears at beginning of words except for Yahu which is keeping its traditional Hebrew transliteration)
Letter style is Weslh (Celtic)Dictionary used: Latest Runic Akkadian dictionary

Ḫu IKu Ya. Ḫu Ku ETu. Su INu ERu Du | ILu IWu Su
Wa Nu Mu E Ru

In English

Hu is not irrigating. Hu is involving the boundary-motion-powers. Su the moon-eye is harboring the life-manifestations. | The high-powers are fate-cursing Su.
Fate-cursed are the revelations of fertility-fluids disabling the eagle-vultures

Comment: Su is the dark new moon god associated with astrology-magic which seeks to shift fate by using the basic dark art defense of amplifying similar powers. This text is blaming that process for interfering with the manifestations of life by stopping the rains from the sun and storm god Hu. Eagle-vultures are the spiritual agents who edit the connection of the life network which bring the life powers to earth.

Previous Attempted Translation

HIC LACET SIWERD FILIVS VVLMER

No English translation provided.

References

Macalister, R A Stewart. 1945. Corpus Inscriptionum Insularum CelticarumVolume 1, page 323. Online at: https://www.google.com/books/edition/Corpus_Inscriptionum_Insularum_Celticaru/4jgaAAAAYAAJ?hl=en

Llywell Rune/Ogham Stone (Front)

(November 1, 2025) This is made from fine red sandstone. It was acquired in 1878 from W.F. Price.

Now at the British Museum. Registration and Museum number: 1878,1102.1. Online at: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/H_1878-1102-1

Llywell Rune/Ogham Stone (Back)

(November 1, 2025) This is made from fine red sandstone. It was acquired in 1878 from W.F. Price.

Now at the British Museum. Registration number: 1878,1102.1 Online at: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/H_1878-1102-1

The left side of the drawing shows a side having an image divided into 3 layers. These layers illustrate the Druid worldview.

Top: Source of all the divine powers. The many images seem to represent these various powers but their identification is unknown.
Middle: The layer connecting earth with the divine, the sky and visible night sky. The sides show the fertility-fluids (life-powers) flowing towards the earth.
Bottom: Earth layer. The left side shows falling water (rain) while the right side shows sun light/heat radiating to earth.

The center of the middle layer shows a person holding a disk with a central dot which represents the dark new moon god Su who is associated with astrology-magic. The letters on either side spell the Druid Akkadian phrase "similar to astrology-magic." The life power most similar to astrology-magic is the crescent moon goddess Ayu who can also control the eagle-vultures who edit the connection of the life-power network. Both deities are mentioned in the text. Therefore, this person must be the goddess Ayu.
The bottom layer also shows a woman. The Druid Akkadian word here is "Seer." The "Seer" is shown holding a shepherd's staff. The Druid priests who work with astrology magic are called "shepherd-priests."

Llywell Rune/Ogham Stone 341

(October 28, 2025) Macalister reports that this stone was first brought to notice by Rev. Lewis Price, Vicar of Llywell; but its existence must have been known to certain persons previously, as there can be no doubt that it is the monument referred to in a note in AC 1875, p. 193, in which Rhys passes on some hearsay information about an inscribed stone at a place called "Y Castell." The monument stood on the side of the road from Trecastle to Glasfynydd, upon a heap of stones with which it seems at one time to have been covered. It was rescued from being converted to a gatepost just in time. Soon afterwards it was transferred to the British Museum, in circumstances described AC 1901, p. 243 .

Translation in Druid Akkadian (Northern Text 77)

(read left to right. Capital letters on object. Small letters are inferred Inner vowels. Vowels are italic bold, Dual use letters are E/H, I/Y, U/W, and '/A in which vowel appears at beginning of words except for Yahu which is keeping its traditional Hebrew transliteration)
Letter style is Welsh (Celtic)Dictionary used: Latest Runic Akkadian dictionary

Šu Tu
BaRu (ogham)
ISu UPu IŠu. IDu A Ku. ISu EGu Ṣu. INu A Mu (ogham)
Wa A Ku. Ku Wa Tu. Ru ENu ITu Su. ALu ISu IDu. Wa Nu Ya
Pu Mu AṢu (ogham)
E Ya Ku

In English

Similar to astrology-magic
Seer
The Woman (Ayu) can spiritually-empower confusion. The life-channeling (by Ayu) can affect involvement. The Woman can neglect activity. The Moon-eye (Su) can affect fertility-fluids.
Fate-curses can affect this involvement. Involvement can curse astrology-magic. (But) Eagle-vultures can reassign the omens of Su. Alu's woman (Ayu) can channel. Fate-curses are not being revealed.
Open fertility-fluid expulsions
Don't disable involvement

Comment: This text is stating all the ways in which drought can happen when various divine powers get out of balance.

Previous Attempted Translation

MACCV-TRENI SALICIDVNI (bottom to top)
MAQI-TRENI SALICIDUNI (top to bottom)

No English translation provided.

References

Macalister, R A Stewart. 1945. Corpus Inscriptionum Insularum CelticarumVolume 1, page 326. Online at: https://www.google.com/books/edition/Corpus_Inscriptionum_Insularum_Celticaru/4jgaAAAAYAAJ?hl=en

Trallwng Ogham/Runestone 342

(October 29, 2025) Macalister reports that this pillar of red sandstone was found in taking down an old church in which it had acted (with the inscribed face turned inward) as a jamb-stone in one of the windows. It is now clamped to the wall of the church, just inside and to the right of the door. A Christian cross with a halo seems to have been added later to this stone.

Its dimensions are 5′ 9″ x 1′ 2″ × 0' 5"

Translation in Druid Akkadian (Northern Text 78)

(read left to right. Capital letters on object. Small letters are inferred Inner vowels. Vowels are italic bold, Dual use letters are E/H, I/Y, U/W, and '/A in which vowel appears at beginning of words except for Yahu which is keeping its traditional Hebrew transliteration)
Letter style is Welsh (Celtic)Dictionary used: Latest Runic Akkadian dictionary

Ku Wa Ne'u. Ku ENu Nu. IṢu ILu IWa Su
Ku Wa Ne'u. Su ENu Ya Ḫu IKu. Ya A Ku ITu.
[E]Ṣ E Tu. Tu Du Ya ITu. ISu Su EŠu ASu UŠu (ogham)

In English

Involvement can curse emotional-effects. Involvement can reassign fate-revelations. Scarce high-powers will redirect Su.
Involvement can curse emotional-effects. Su cannot reassign Hu's irrigation-network (life network). Would not that involve omens?
Ethereal-winds/spirits can disable astrology-magic. Astrology-magic will not then manifest omens. The Woman of Su (Selu/Selene) can confuse the fate-shifting of the foundation (underworld).

Comment: Involvement between the life and motion power classes can shift fate so that the frustration level in society will not increase. But this involvement does not work via the astrology-magic associated with Su.
The ogham text is stating that Selu (Selene = "powers of Selu") is the celestial light goddess responsible for fate and the source of these ethereal winds/spirits. Her fate powers can disable astrology magic also.

Previous Attempted Translation

CVNOCENNI FILIVS
CVNOGENI HIC LACIT
CVNACENNIVI ILVVETO

No English translation provided.

References

Macalister, R A Stewart. 1945. Corpus Inscriptionum Insularum CelticarumVolume 1, page 328. Online at: https://www.google.com/books/edition/Corpus_Inscriptionum_Insularum_Celticaru/4jgaAAAAYAAJ?hl=en

Ystrad Gynlais Runestone 356 and 357

(November 2, 2025) Macalister reports that these 2 stones were found built into the wall of a lean-to-coal-cellar against the S.E. corner of the modern parish church.

Its visible dimensions are 4' 0" x 0' 8"

Translation in Druid Akkadian (Northern Text 79)

(read left to right. Capital letters on object. Small letters are inferred Inner vowels. Vowels are italic bold, Dual use letters are E/H, I/Y, U/W, and '/A in which vowel appears at beginning of words except for Yahu which is keeping its traditional Hebrew transliteration)
Letter style is Welsh (Celtic)Dictionary used: Latest Runic Akkadian dictionary

ADu Ya Wa Nu E
Ḫu IKu Ya AKu ITu

In English

Don't instigate the curses revealing ineffectiveness
Hu will not irrigate the emotion-owl's omens

Comment: Curses from the high powers apparently need to be revealed and manifested in order to take effect on earth.

Previous Attempted Translation

ADIVNE
HIC LACIT

No English translation provided.

References

Macalister, R A Stewart. 1945. Corpus Inscriptionum Insularum CelticarumVolume 1, page 332. Online at: https://www.google.com/books/edition/Corpus_Inscriptionum_Insularum_Celticaru/4jgaAAAAYAAJ?hl=en

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