You have no advanced search rows. Add one by clicking the '+ Add Row' button

Slebech Park, Holy Island Southwest Mound, Slebech

Loading Map
NPRN23122
Map ReferenceSN01SW
Grid ReferenceSN0329713947
Unitary (Local) AuthorityPembrokeshire
Old CountyPembrokeshire
CommunitySlebech
Type Of SiteFOLLY
PeriodPost Medieval
Description
1. Flat topped, irregularly shaped, partly surrounded by walls, probably ornamental features.

2. The SW of a pair of mounds/tidal islets (see also Nprn24559), having an oval flat-topped summit, c.30m E-W by 21m, 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 islands.
(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.