Mathern

A photograph of the ‘massive yew stump to the north, it measures 670cm’ is shown on p59 of The Churchyard Yews of Gwent. Revd J.Daryll Evans added that ‘the surrounding soil had been dug away, presumably to facilitate removal of the stump itself. Nearby was a large crater, showing where a second stump had been taken out. Though nothing remained of it, the size of the hole implied a tree of the same order of size as its immediate neighbour. In a year or so there will be little to show that such fine trees once grew here”.