Maen Achwyfan Cross

Cadw translates Maen Achwyfan as "the stone of [Saint] Cwyfan" and dates the cross to the early Medieval or Medieval periods.[1] Edward Hubbard, in his Clwyd Pevsner, suggests a build date of the late 10th or early 11th century.[2] It stands 3.4 m high and is carved from a single block of stone.[3] Its height makes it the "tallest wheel cross in Britain".[1] Its wheel cross head has bosses on both sides.[2] The shaft is decorated with knotwork and with images of men and animals. Hubbard recorded in 2003 that the figurative images were "now barely discernible".[2] Cadw notes the Viking influence on the design, the cross being carved at a time when Viking raids were common along the North Wales coastline.[3]

The cross stands in a field to the north of the village of Whitford. It is a Scheduled monument.[4]

• Archaeology of Wales
• Wales in the Middle Ages
• Carew Cross
• St Brynach Cross

• Hubbard, Edward (2003). Clwyd: Denbighshire and Flintshire. The Buildings of Wales. New Haven, US and London: Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-09627-9. OCLC 909280390.

• Coflein site with images of the cross
• Articles on the cross by Prof. Howard Williams – The Offa's Dyke Collaboratory

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