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The font was re-erected on a modern pedestal, although the actual bowl is of particular interest, as it has a band of decoration of shallow incised lines around the upper part, which has been described as
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Scourfield: The Buildings of Wales, Carmarthenshire and Ceredigion, Yale University Press, 2006.
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