<< Our Photo Pages >> Priory Farm Cave - Cave or Rock Shelter in Wales in Pembrokeshire
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Natural PlacesSite Name: Priory Farm Cave Alternative Name: Catshole Cave, Monkton CaveCountry: Wales
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County: Pembrokeshire Type: Cave or Rock Shelter
Nearest Town: Pembroke
Map Ref: SM9789201832
Latitude: 51.678792N Longitude: 4.924742W
Condition:
5 | Perfect |
4 | Almost Perfect |
3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
0 | No data. |
-1 | Completely destroyed |
5 | Superb |
4 | Good |
3 | Ordinary |
2 | Not Good |
1 | Awful |
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5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
4 | Short walk on a footpath |
3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
2 | A long walk |
1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
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5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village |
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SeeHafstone7 visited on 16th Mar 2022 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 4 Access: 3 Difficult access - best approached from above the limestone bluff. Follow the rough track from Priory Farm which leads to a disused quarry. The owners of the land are usually friendly, but best to ask permission. As the track approaches the edge of the bluff it turns left, you need to leave the track and head towards the largest of the three trees on the bluff edge pushing through rough grass and brambles. At the edge clamber down and head right. Watch your footing, fight your way over fallen trees and brambles and you'll see the cave forecourt below you. Slither down!
From Coflein: "A cave, or rock-shelter, c.5.4m wide and c.2.4m high, set c.12m above Milford Haven, and narrowing to a tunnel c.30m in length, produced finds, when excavated in 1906-7, of Mesolithic-Paleolithic provenance, a BA hoard and possibly 14th-15th century AD shell middens, besides remains of elephants, reindeer & other local fauna."
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