Fishguard's Ancient Landscape - History & Folklore of Wales

In this video we’ll explore four neolithic sites in north Pembrokeshire, Starting off at St Gwyndafs church. We’ll walk to Garn Wnda, the Cromlech at Fferm Penrhiw, and the trio at Garn Wen... before jumping back in the car to revisit a personal favourite Ffyst samson.

Just a couple of miles from Abergwaun or Fishguard, is the village of Llanwnda. In the community of Pen Caer, often referred to as the "Pen Caer Peninsula" or "Strumble Head Peninsula". Before we delve into the areas neolithic past, we will take a quick look at a local event from the late 18th century, known as "The Battle of Fishguard"....

VIDEO CHAPTERS
00:00 Introduction
00:23 Llanwnda & The Battle of Fishguard
2:06 St Gwyndaf Church
3:27 Holy Well
3:55 Garnwnda Monument
5:26 Richard Fenton's Observations
6:53 John Fenton’s Observations
9:28 Fferm Penrhiw Cromlech
10:45 Garn Wen ‘Cemetery’
12:50 Dolmen = Tomb?
15:22 Mermaids Advice
16:35 Ffyst Samson Outro

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Great map resource - https://www.oldmapsonline.org/
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Great book resources -
https://archive.org/
https://www.gutenberg.org/
https://books.google.co.uk/
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References and Further Reading:

George Nash Encoding a Neolithic Landscape The Linearity of Burial Monuments along Strumble Head, South-west Wales:
https://www.researchgate.net/publicat...

A reassessment of the neolithic tombs of South West Wales 1989:
https://theses.gla.ac.uk/78041/1/1100...

Archaeologia Cambrensis Vol 3 (1848) p283-285 John Fenton:
https://www.proquest.com/openview/62e...

John Fenton. July 24th, 1848:
https://archive.org/details/archaeolo...

Archaeology.co.uk article discussing dolmens:
https://archaeology.co.uk/articles/fe...

Battle of Fishguard:
https://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK...

Mermaid’s advice - (Pembrokeshire Folk Tales, Christine Wilson)