The request is straightforward enough, but the context is quietly unusual. Rather than lying flat over a grave or standing upright within a church interior, this 17th-century slab has been set directly into the external enclosing wall of the graveyard itself, placed to the west of the original entrance gateway. A second graveslab sits to the south of the same gateway, though whatever it once said has been worn beyond reading.

The surviving inscription, recorded with the assistance of Dr C. Cunniffe, opens with the familiar early modern formula, "Pray for ye sovl," and names the deceased as Fa Carbry Keanvan, with the initials V G T following his name, their precise meaning now uncertain. He died on the 25th of September in a year that begins 161, the final digit lost or damaged. The slab was not commissioned by the man himself but by his ancestors, as the text makes plain: they caused this monument to be made. At the top of the slab, the IHS monogram is carved, a Christogram derived from the Greek letters of Jesus's name and widely used in Catholic memorial art of this period, with a Latin cross rising from the bar of the H. The graveyard itself surrounds a medieval church that sits roughly at its centre, suggesting a site of continuous use across several centuries, with this Jacobean-era slab representing one legible moment in a longer, less decipherable sequence.