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Rock Cross, Pilgrim's Cross, Nevern

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NPRN304396
Map ReferenceSN04SE
Grid ReferenceSN0809040010
Unitary (Local) AuthorityPembrokeshire
Old CountyPembrokeshire
CommunityNevern
Type Of SiteCROSS
PeriodUnknown
Description
Equal armed cross carved in rough relief on a natural rock-face 2m above the ground. A step is also cut into the rock-face below the cross for those wishing to venerate it.

Local tradition suggets that this was on the pilgramage route to St Davids from Strata Florids and Holywell.

Louise Barker, RCAHMW, November 2015

Sources:
Archaeologia Cambrensis, 1883, IV, xiv, 342.
RCAHM, 1925. Inventory of the County of Pembroke (Pembroke II Cronware to Pemnroke, No. 785, 265).