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Ancient Sites in Pembrokeshire

133 ancient sites across 19 Pembrokeshire towns and villages.

Pembrokeshire has one of the densest concentrations of prehistoric monuments in Britain, and one genuinely world-famous connection: the bluestones of Stonehenge were quarried in the Preseli Hills, at Carn Goedog and Craig Rhos-y-felin, and a dismantled stone circle at Waun Mawn is the leading candidate for where they stood first.

The showpiece is Pentre Ifan, a 5,500-year-old burial chamber whose sixteen-tonne capstone rests on three uprights with almost no visible support. Beyond it: Carreg Samson above Abercastle, Carreg Coetan in Newport, the stone rows at Parc y Meirw, and dozens of Iron Age coastal promontory forts along the Coast Path, most of them unmarked.

Many of the sites below are on farmland with no facilities and no formal access. Treat this as a map of what is there, check access before you go, and follow the Countryside Code.

By town and village

Every ancient site, by town and village

Newport (Trefdraeth)

45 ancient sites
  • Banc Du Causewayed Enclosure
  • Banc Du Defended Enclosure
  • Banc Du Standing Stone
  • Carn Briw
  • Carn Ffoi Hillfort
  • Carn Ingli Barrow Cemetery
  • Carn Ingli Round Barrows
  • Carn Llwyd
  • Carn Wrach
  • Carningli Hillfort Inner Enclosure
  • Carningli Hillfort Lower Platform
  • Carningli Hillfort Middle Enclosure
  • Carningli Hillfort Outer Enclosure
  • Carningli Hillfort Upper Platform
  • Carningli South Settlement
  • Carreg Coetan
  • Castell Eglwyswrw
  • Castell Llwyd
  • Castell Mawr
  • Castell Pengenin
  • Castell Treruffydd
  • Castell y Garn Defended Enclosure
  • Court Moated Site
  • Cwm-Pen-y-Benglog

All 45 in Newport (Trefdraeth)

St Davids

10 ancient sites
  • Bishop's Palace
  • Caerfai Camp
  • Carn Llidi Chambered Tomb
  • Castell Heinif
  • Clegyr Boia
  • Coetan Arthur Dolmen
  • Lime Kiln Ruins
  • Menapia Roman Station
  • Ring and Bailey
  • St Non's Chapel (ruins)

Haverfordwest

7 ancient sites
  • Boulston Church (remains of)
  • Castell Cas-wis
  • Gorsedd stones
  • King Arthur
  • Manor House (Remains of)
  • Prendergast Paper Mill
  • Priordy Hwlffordd

Solva

6 ancient sites
  • Porth y Bwch Defended Enclosure
  • Abereiddy Promontory Fort
  • Melin Trefin Mill
  • Porth-y-Rhaw Camp
  • Solva Gribbin Fort
  • Tre-Maen-Hir Standing Stone

Fishguard & Goodwick

6 ancient sites
  • Fishguard Herring
  • Gorsedd Circle
  • Parc Maenhir
  • Parc-y-Meirw
  • Summerton Camp
  • Trellwyn Fawr Standing Stone

Narberth

5 ancient sites
  • Black Pool Mill
  • Castell Gwyn
  • Hospice (remains of)
  • Newton North Church
  • Sister's House

Goodwick

3 ancient sites
  • Carreg Samson
  • Carregwestad Point
  • Garnwnda Burial Chamber

Neyland

3 ancient sites
  • The Hanging Stone
  • Fort Scoveston (Disused)
  • Isambard Kingdom Brunell

Saundersfoot

2 ancient sites
  • Stepaside Ironworks
  • Winding House

Dale

2 ancient sites
  • Gann Lime Kilns
  • Runway

Freshwater East

2 ancient sites
  • Greenala Point Iron Age Fort
  • Flamish Chimney

Pembroke Dock

2 ancient sites
  • Compass
  • Lawrenny Castle

Bosherston & Stackpole

2 ancient sites
  • Harold Stone
  • cowshed

Amroth

2 ancient sites
  • Pembrokeshire Coast Path Endmarker
  • Trelessy Defended Enclosure

Tenby

1 ancient site
  • Time Sequence

Marloes

1 ancient site
  • Harold Stone

Manorbier

1 ancient site
  • Kings Quoit Burial Chamber

Pembroke

1 ancient site
  • King Henry VII

Angle

1 ancient site
  • Chapel Bay Fort

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