The following excerpt is from the June 18, 2013 edition of FoxNews.com:
In a small Welsh village, Nikki Vousden and Roderick Bale were enjoying an evening stroll in the woods when a rock with strange carvings by the side of a stream caught their attention. Both archeologists, they knew it was no ordinary slab.
It took a late night in the library and a call with an expert to realize they had discovered a long-lost medieval stone with religious significance.
“We were going for a stroll in the evening and we sort of noticed the stone, half sticking out of the stream,” Vousden of the of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales told FoxNews.com. It had been raining and the water made the carvings stand out, causing Vousden and Bale of the University of Wales to further investigate.They quickly called Nancy Edwards, an expert in ancient and medieval history… Edwards confirmed it as the Silian 3 stone, an artifact she had been searching for since labeling it with a question mark in her book A Corpus of Early Medieval Inscribed Stones and Stone Sculpture in Wales.
The Silian 3 stone may be be an ecclesiastical monument. There’s also the possibility that it was used as a boundary or grave marker.
