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Maen Serth
Date Added: 23rd Oct 2023
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: Wales (Powys)
Visited: Yes on 19th Mar 2023. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 3
Maen Serth submitted by TimPrevett on 10th Aug 2005. The stone, with the location of Esgair Perfedd to the rear - a Roman Marching Camp said to take up to 4,000 soldiers, and believed to be constructed during the last Campaign against the (for us) Welsh. Did the Romans use these ridge top markers to help follow the route into the mountains? I reckon they did. Then I picture 4,000 tired, but battle ready Roman soldiers passing this stone some 1900 years ago. If the stones could speak...
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Carreg Coetan Arthur
Date Added: 21st Oct 2023
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: Wales (Pembrokeshire)
Visited: Yes on 20th Oct 2023. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 5
Carreg Coetan Arthur submitted by PaulM on 24th Aug 2001. CARREG COETAN ARTHUR TRIPOD DOLMEN
NGR: SN06093930 (Landranger map 145/Outdoor Leisure North Pembrokeshire map (No 35))
Located close to the centre of Newport in Pembrokeshire with public access. Although called a tripod dolmen four uprights exist - only two of which support the capstone (which is said to replicate the summit of Carn Ingli to the south).
Excavations have revealed cremated bone, Beaker and Grooved ware sherds.
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Log Text: Despite its neighbours, the hedges and trees have begun to give this site a bit more of a natural setting compared to how it must have looked when the houses were first built. Impressed with the artist impression of the site on the information board - would like to see more by this artist!
St Govan's Well
Date Added: 21st Oct 2023
Site Type: Holy Well or Sacred Spring
Country: Wales (Pembrokeshire)
Visited: Yes on 19th Oct 2023. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 5 Access 3
St Govan's Well submitted by Manja on 18th Jan 2011. St. Govan's Chapel nestled up against the cliffs.
September 2008
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Log Text: Visited whilst out on a longer walk around the headland. Would love to have a little more insight into the layout of the interior and possibly an artist impression.
Bedd Arthur
Date Added: 21st Oct 2023
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: Wales (Pembrokeshire)
Visited: Yes on 17th Oct 2023. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 3 Access 1
Bedd Arthur submitted by Postman on 25th Jun 2021. 09.00am summer solstice, 12 years ago exactly I was last here, but with my ten year old daughter, she never complained once about the distance we walked, I miss my small children.
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Carngoedog
Date Added: 21st Oct 2023
Site Type: Ancient Mine, Quarry or other Industry
Country: Wales (Pembrokeshire)
Visited: Yes on 17th Oct 2023. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 1
Carngoedog submitted by mountainman on 31st Aug 2008. Site in Wales: Carngoedog, now identified as the main source for the spotted dolerite bluestones found at Stonehenge
grid ref: SN 128332
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Carn Alw
Date Added: 21st Oct 2023
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: Wales (Pembrokeshire)
Visited: Yes on 17th Oct 2023. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 5 Access 1
Carn Alw submitted by Horatio on 27th Aug 2019. Carn Alw hill fort from the west, hard to see but from about the level of the dip in the crags running to the right is a broad, carefully delimited zone of 'chevaux-de-frise'. Not easy to see in this photo and stupidly I was stood amongst it admiring and commenting on it and I totally forgot to get 'the photo'. Where the path leads in from the viewers point, it goes through the defensive wall angled left (by the rush) and up on to a fairly level platform, where I guess the houses may have been...
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Foel Drygarn Cairns
Date Added: 22nd Oct 2023
Site Type: Cairn
Country: Wales (Pembrokeshire)
Visited: Yes on 17th Oct 2023. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 5 Access 2
Foel Drygarn submitted by PaulM on 29th Jul 2003. A view of the internals of one of Foel Drygarn's three cairns.
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Foel Drygarn Fort
Date Added: 22nd Oct 2023
Site Type: Hillfort
Country: Wales (Pembrokeshire)
Visited: Yes on 17th Oct 2023. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 5 Access 2
Foel Drygarn Fort submitted by Iain_P on 20th Jun 2017. One more composite image taken from a height of around 120m
Here's a link to the whole video, filmed near sunset on Sunday (18th June)
https://vimeo.com/222373142
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Castell Henllys
Date Added: 23rd Oct 2023
Site Type: Promontory Fort / Cliff Castle
Country: Wales (Pembrokeshire)
Visited: Yes on 29th Sep 2023. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 4 Access 3
Castell Henllys submitted by vicky on 7th Jun 2002. Iron Age roundhouses reconstructed in their original position at the hillfort of Castell Henllys in Pembrokeshire.
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Pentre Ifan
Date Added: 23rd Oct 2023
Site Type: Portal Tomb
Country: Wales (Pembrokeshire)
Visited: Yes on 29th Sep 2023. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 4 Access 4
Pentre Ifan submitted by Horatio on 22nd Jun 2020. A year later and back at Pentre Ifan for the solstice sunset, all on my own some (apart from a 13yr old Jack Russell this time) I Was expecting at least to see one other (person not Jack Russell) at this site for the sunset.
That morning I'd gone to see the sunrise at Gors Fawr stone circle and even left my house in the rain knowing there was zero chance of seeing a sunrise, I definitely was not disappointed, crap weather but I enjoyed being amongst the stones as the solstice sun rose, the cu...
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Gilman Point fort
Date Added: 23rd Oct 2023
Site Type: Promontory Fort / Cliff Castle
Country: Wales (Pembrokeshire)
Visited: Yes on 28th Sep 2023. My rating: Condition 1 Ambience 4 Access 3
Gilman Point fort submitted by Bladup on 14th Sep 2013. Looking over the bank of Gilman Point fort.
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Amroth Submerged Forest
Date Added: 23rd Oct 2023
Site Type: Not Known (by us)
Country: Wales (Pembrokeshire)
Visited: Would like to visit
Waun Mawn NE
Date Added: 23rd Oct 2023
Site Type: Standing Stones
Country: Wales (Pembrokeshire)
Visited: Would like to visit
Waun Mawn NE submitted by Postman on 22nd Jun 2021. A serene moment of solitude, or rather quick she's gone take a photo.
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Waun Mawn W
Date Added: 23rd Oct 2023
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: Wales (Pembrokeshire)
Visited: Would like to visit
Waun Mawn W submitted by Postman on 22nd Jun 2021. The sunshine, it approaches.
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Craig Rhosyfelin
Date Added: 23rd Oct 2023
Site Type: Rock Outcrop
Country: Wales (Pembrokeshire)
Visited: Would like to visit
Craig Rhosyfelin submitted by Aluta on 25th Sep 2018. A view of Craig Rhos-y-felin, one of the possible sources of some of Stonehenge's bluestones.
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St David's Head
Date Added: 24th Oct 2023
Site Type: Hillfort
Country: Wales (Pembrokeshire)
Visited: Yes on 2nd Sep 2022. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 5 Access 3
St David's Head submitted by Adam Stanford on 29th Nov 2004. Inside the enclosure with the seven, possibly eight circular hut remains clearly visible in the foreground. The ramparts are obscured by the rock outcrop, which runs parallel to them (left to right) in the middle of this picture. Coetan Arthur is just beyond another rock outcrop, below the horizon to the left and the double dolmen of Carn Llidi is hard to spot on the slopes in the distance. Between Carn Llidi and Coetan Arthur is another settlement area and ancient field system, delineated by a ...
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Coetan Arthur Dolmen
Date Added: 24th Oct 2023
Site Type: Chambered Tomb
Country: Wales (Pembrokeshire)
Visited: Yes on 2nd Sep 2022. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 5 Access 3
Coetan Arthur Dolmen submitted by Johnny on 25th Aug 2001. Coetan Arthur, St. David's Head, Dyfed
(SM725 281):
Impressively situated on the hillside close to St. David's Head, Coetan Arthur is the collapsed chamber of what is presumed to be a passage grave which also has a round barrow. The massive capstone measures approximately 5.9 meters by 2.6 meters and is supported on one side by an orthostat approximately 1.5 meters in height.
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Cilgerran Churchyard
Date Added: 19th Aug 2024
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: Wales (Pembrokeshire)
Visited: Yes on 13th Jul 2024. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 2 Access 4
Cilgerran Churchyard submitted by vicky on 4th Apr 2002. Cilgerran Churchyard (SN191431) – one of several standing stones located in churchyards in this part of SW Wales. The stone can be hard to find amongst the similarly grey tombstones and exhibits lettering on one face and crude cross symbols of two other faces. Our research pixie is looking in to this stone further.
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Log Text: I haven't seen many stones with Ogham and Latin inscriptions, both being quite legible on this particular example. Keen to see more a I know there are quite a few in this area of Wales.
Tycanol
Date Added: 3rd Dec 2024
Site Type: Hillfort
Country: Wales (Pembrokeshire)
Visited: Yes on 20th Oct 2024. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 4 Access 3
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Carn Ingli Mountain Fort
Date Added: 3rd Dec 2024
Site Type: Hillfort
Country: Wales (Pembrokeshire)
Visited: Yes on 19th Oct 2024. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 4 Access 3
Carn Ingli Mountain Fort submitted by vicky on 4th Nov 2003. A view of the hillfort of Carn Ingli from the east.
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