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Slebech Park, Holy Islands NE Mound, Slebech

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NPRN24559
Map ReferenceSN01SW
Grid ReferenceSN0335314028
Unitary (Local) AuthorityPembrokeshire
Old CountyPembrokeshire
CommunitySlebech
Type Of SiteMOUND
PeriodPost Medieval
Description
1. Two small mounds on small peninsula in estuary. At high tide become islets. Both circa 13 m. high, 11 m. wide. Trees and grass covered. Presumably to do with defence or anchorage of commendery.

2. The NE of a pair of mounds/tidal islets (see also Nprn23122), having a tapering oval flat-topped summit, c.28m NE-SW by 13.5m, apparently stone revetted, showing traces of masonry foundations.
Portrayed as a 'tumulus' on OS County series (Pembroke. XXVIII.11 1889), thought to be a (17th-18th C.) landscape feature part of Slebech Park (Nprn265275); associated with Slebech Hall (Nprn30244).
A 15th C. sword was found in the vicinity of the mounds.
(sources: Os495card; SN01SW2; CADW 2002 (Register of Parks & Gardens in Wales, 302-8)
RCAHMW AP945032/46, 52; 945039/41-2
J.Wiles 20.04.04

3. Depicted on the Second Edition Ordnance Survey 25-inch map of Pembrokeshire XXVIII, sheet 11 (1907). C.H. Nicholas, RCAHMW, 24th August 2006.