Site Record

Both the field name, Carreg Nimllwyd, and the topographical name, Waun-y-Beddau, are suggestive of a burial ground and its furniture. First edition Ordnance Survey mapping depicts the site as a burial ground. Stone coffins containing bones are said to have been ploughed-up here in c.1931. Archaeological investigations by Richard Scott-Jones in 2003 revealed the survival of four early medieval lintel graves, aligned south-east to north-west, containing human bone which was left in situ. The site may possibly be associated with a number of other features in the vicinity. It lies some 290m and 450m east of two Neolithic chambered tombs, and some 130m north of a site depicted as `Tre Prior? on first edition Ordnance Survey mapping. The site is also some 340m from the place name `Ysbytty? (hospital ? indicating a stopping-place on a medieval pilgrimage route), also depicted on first edition Ordnance Survey mapping at the site of `springs?. Tremynydd defended enclosure (NPRN 423540) lies some 500m to the north-east, and Tremynydd cist cemetery (NPRN 400284) lies some 700m to the north-east.

Sources include:
Cambria Archaeology, 2003, Early Medieval Ecclesiastical Sites Project, Pembrokeshire gazetteer

RCAHMW, 28 October 2018