Pembrokeshire's Past
About this book
'Pembrokeshire's Past' vividly and unforgettably brings to life the boisterous and turbulent history of this little-known Welsh peninsula jutting out into the Irish Sea. The book is a fascinating and unforgettable read. A great glacier overrode the mountains in the north and produced the blue stones of Stonehenge. Upper Palaeolithic mammoth hunters sheltered in limestone caves. As the climate warmed, Mesolithic people were followed by Neolithic people who left their spectacular stone burial chambers. Rising sea levels produced sunken forests around the coast. Bronze Age people left stone circles and burial mounds. Iron Age Celtic settlers left many hill forts. Turbulence followed with Roman, Irish, Viking and Norman invasions. The latter left the great stone castles. The Civil War was strongly contested. Lord Palmerston built many forts in the south. A great naval shipbuilding yard operated in Pembroke Dock. For beach walkers, the flora and fauna from the Amazon and Caribbean that wash ashore are described in all their remarkable and colourful detail.
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Table of contents
- PLATE CAPTIONS
- FIGURE CAPTIONS
- 1. INTRODUCTION.
- 2. NORTH AND SOUTH PEMBROKESHIRE
- 3. THE GLACIATION OF PEMBROKESHIRE AND THE BLUESTONE CONTROVERSY
- 4. THE PEOPLING OF WALES
- 5. THE UPPER PALEOLITHIC CAVE DWELLERS OF SOUTH WALES
- 6. PENTRE IFAN – A NEOLITHIC BURIAL CHAMBER
- 7. THE SUNKEN FORESTS OF PEMBROKESHIRE
- 8. FOEL ERYR - A BRONZE AGE BURIAL CAIRN IN THE PRESELI MOUNTAINS WITH VIEWS OF IRELAND, NORTH WALES AND LUNDY ISLAND
- 9. TWO BRONZE-AGE STONE CIRCLES IN THE PRESELI MOUNTAINS.
- 10. THE IRON AGE HILL FORT OF FOEL DRYGARN (TRIGARN)
- 11. CASTELL HENLLYS - A RECONSTRUCTED IRON AGE SETTLEMENT NEAR NEWPORT
- 12. ROMAN PEMBROKESHIRE
- 13. THE LEGENDS OF KING ARTHUR’S VISITS TO PEMBROKESHIRE
- 14. DARK AGE PEMBROKESHIRE BEFORE THE NORMAN CONQUEST
- 15. VIKING PEMBROKESHIRE.
- 16. WHERE WAS THE WINTER CAMP OF UBBE RAGNARSSON?
- 17. THE FIRST KING OF ALL WALES – GRUFFYDD AP LLYWELYN (DIED 1063).
- 18. THE NORMAN WAR MACHINE
- 19. EARLY NORMAN CASTLES IN PEMBROKESHIRE
- 20. THE NORMAN STONE CASTLES OF PEMBROKESHIRE
- 21. PRINCESS NEST
- 22. THE DEATH OF PRINCESS GWENLLIAN AND A GREAT WELSH VICTORY AT CARDIGAN
- 23. PEMBROKE CASTLE AND ITS TOWN WALLS
- 24. THE NORMAN INVASION OF IRELAND
- 25. HENRY TEWDWR AND MULLOCK BRIDGE ON THE DALE PENINSULA
- 26. THE GREAT TOURNAMENT AT CAREW CASTLE
- 27. VIEW THE NORMAN EARLS AND KNIGHTS OF PEMBROKESHIRE
- 28. TWO PEMBROKESHIRE PRIORIES
- 29. THE CIVIL WAR IN PEMBROKESHIRE
- 30. SIR JOHN PERROT AND THE RUINS OF HIS MANOR
- 31. THE PIRATE BLACK BART ROBERTS OF HAVERFORDWEST (1682-1722)
- 32. ADMIRAL LORD NELSON – A VISIT AND A BETRAYAL
- 33. THE NANTUCKETT WHALERS OF MILFORD HAVEN
- 34. THE FORTS OF SOUTH PEMBROKESHIRE
- 35. THE GREAT NAVAL DOCKYARD AT PEMBROKE
- 36. GULF STREAM TREASURES ON PEMBROKESHIRE BEACHES.
- PLATES
- APPENDIX 1. SOME HIGHLIGHTS OF PEMBROKESHIRE HISTORY
- APPENDIX 2. HISTORIC PLACES TO VISIT IN PEMBROKESHIRE.
- APPENDIX 3. SOME INFORMATIVE WEBSITES.
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
- INDEX