Other Erratics around Castlemartin

More Erratics

In my last post there was a brief glimpse of an erratic near the ruined building at Loveston. Better pictures of this stone are below.

On St Govan's Head (SR9739 9297) is another erratic, which was probably disturbed when the tank gunnery range was laid out on the headland. It seems to lie in/by an old pop-up target pit. The tape is 1 metre.

The view below is of the same stone, with an old target dugout/bunker in the background. Church Rock, in Broadhaven, can be seen in the distance.

The next example is resting against the south gable of Church House near St Twynnells church, near the postulated site of William Poyer's Longstone (SR94989757)

Flimston Chapel churchyard (SR92399558). There is a substantial collection of erratics in this churchyard. Some have been used as headstones for the graves of members of the Lambton Family who died in military service. Others have been left  sitting in one corner of the enclosure. All of these stones arrived in the churchyard when the chapel was renovated and re-consecrated in 1903. There are 7 of them. A pamphlet, which describes the features and memorials in the yard, printed at the time of the opening of the chapel in about 1914, gives us these vague details:

No. 1 Boulder, at the head of Lady Victoria Lambton's  grave was taken from just opposite Flimston Cottage. A 'brecciated spherultio, albite, trachyte or rhyolite.' Many occur in Pembrokeshire. This one 'seems to fit best with those of Romans'Castle in the character of its spherulites and groundmass.' Most of these appear to have travelled over 30 miles from the N. West separated from their parent rocks by St Brides Bay and Milford Haven, and by a considerable mass of high ground.........

[Flimston Cottage stood at SR927955, about 0.3 km ESE of the chapel and just north of the old clay pits.]

......No. 2 Boulder, from Pwlslaughter, which stands in the opposite North corner. [Bullslaughter, SR942944 - approximately 2.25 km SE]

No. 3 Boulder from Bulliber Farm [About 2.25 km WNW, at SR905968]

No. 3 Boulder from Merrion pond. [ About 2 km NE].

No. 5 Boulder from Lyserry Farm

No. 6 Boulder from Lyserry Farm.

No.7 Boulder from Lyserry Farm.

[Lyserry is about 3.4 km ENE of Flimston chapel, at SR9556967]

Clearly there was some significance in dragging these rocks from their resting places about the area, but quite what the intention was is unclear. It seems likely, as I have mentioned elsewhere, that they were all intended to be memorials or headstones.

Between Mewsford and Bullslaughter  Bay (SR94099405). This stone seems similar to some of those at Flimston Chapel, and indeed, the stone of St Govan's Head, mentioned above.

In the background of the picture below can be seen a target operating and observation dugout, of a type built on the range in about 1942.

There are other erratics in the area, but as yet I have not photographed them.

I am hoping to update this posting in the future with a Google Earth file that will plot the locations of the erratics I know about in the Castlemartin area. 

Do you know of any others in South Pembrokeshire?