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Object type: Cross-carved stone
Measurements: L. 104 cm (40.9 in); W. 23 > 21.5 cm (9 > 8.5 in); D. unknown
Stone type: Fine-grained sandstone, red/grey in colour — probably the same as the other carved stones from the site (see Llanveynoe 1 and 2).
Plate numbers in printed volume: Ills. 519-20
Corpus volume reference: Vol 10 p. 290-1
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Long, thin slab. The stone bears a cross with a central stem and two upper and lower cross-arms, the vertical and horizontal lines of which are pecked rather than incised. In between the two cross-arms (but only to one side of the central stem) there is another pecked line. The north wall of the church has, at some stage, been re-pointed with a pale pink mortar full of inclusions including charcoal. This re-pointing covers some of the edges of the stone and infills the central portion of the stem of the cross and two of the arms.
See Llanveynoe St Peter 4 for general comments. The cross-carved stones at Llandysul (Cardiganshire) and Llanfihangel-ar-Arth (Carmarthenshire) offer close parallels for no. 5, with the central stems and the two horizontal arms all reaching to the edges of the stone, and shorter arms (to one side of the central stem on no. 5 rather than across it) dividing the cross into two or three parts (Edwards 2007, 161–2, 246–7, figs. CD15, CM23). Not enough of Llanveynoe St Peter 5 survives to establish whether there were crosslets on the arms, but, like no. 4, this stone was designed to be set upright, probably in the ground.
