Continued damage…
Continuing damage to the Scheduled Ancient Monument meant there was an urgent need for excavation to retrieve as much information as possible. This excavation was carried out in 2014, 2015 and 2016 by Dyfed Archaeological Trust and the University of Sheffield with support from Cadw, the Nineveh Charitable Trust and Pembrokeshire Coast National Park Authority.
This is St Patrick’s chapel site after terrible storms of January 2014, large boulders that had been placed here in the early 2000s had been washed away, all the beach sand disappeared, and the cliff edges were greatly disturbed..
The left-hand side of the first photograph shows the sand stripped beach, the the right-hand side shows the edge of the cemetery site which has been battered. Large boulders that had been placed here in the early 2000s had been washed away, all the beach sand disappeared, and the cliff edges were greatly disturbed.
Use the slider to view the remains uncovered during the storm of 2014, and the archaeology that was revealed.
Members of the public started reporting that they could see human remains sticking out of the side of the cliff. Once it was established that these were ancient burials, the archaeologists stepped in.
