Mr J. G. Wood, M.A., F.S.A., contributes the following account: – ‘This ‘maenhir’ is at the place now called ‘Druidstone’ on the old Cardiff-Newport road. The stone is somewhat of a pyramidal shape according to the drawing in Mrs Bagnall-Oakeley’s account’ and I should doubt its having anything but a natural origin if it were not for the name which Mrs Oakeley gives to the farm, Gwael-y-filast, which has now disappeared from the map. This is plainly a corruption of Gwal-y-filiast, or ‘The Greyhound’s Bed’ [...]
The N.W. face is covered with pock-marks which have the appearance of tooling or pounding done with rude implements (such as stone hammers for instance). The foreman mentioned a story that the stone is said to go down to the water for a swim when the cock crows at night.‘
In O.G.S. Crawford’s ‘The Long Barrows of the Cotswolds’ (1925).