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Cist Cemetery and Possible Chapel Site, Llanwnwr Farm, Llanwnda

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NPRN422437
Map ReferenceSM84SE
Grid ReferenceSM8957240515
Unitary (Local) AuthorityPembrokeshire
Old CountyPembrokeshire
CommunityPencaer
Type Of SiteCIST GRAVE CEMETERY
PeriodMedieval
Description
This cist grave cemetery is thought to also be the site of one of two former chapelries to St Gwyndaf's Church, Llanwnda (NPRN 308468), the other being Capel Degan (NPRN 525508). The site is thought to be early medieval in origin and is overlain by the current farm. In the early eighteenth century it was reported that `a considerable number of flag-lined graves have from time-to-time been brought to light in the yard, and after rain the outlines of burials can be traced?. There is a neolithic chambered tomb some 200m north-west of the farm. The farm is also the findspot of two early medieval cross-inscribed stones, Llanwnda 9 and Llanwnda 10 (NPRNs 422438 & 422439).

Sources include:
Cambria Archaeology, 2000, Carmarthenshire Churches, gazetteer, 48
Cambria Archaeology, 2003, Early Medieval Ecclesiastical Sites Project, Pembrokeshire gazetteer

N Vousden, 16 January 2018