Carreg Samson

Carreg Samson is a 5,000-year-old Neolithic dolmen overlooking Abercastle Harbour on the Pembrokeshire coast of Wales. The massive capstone, measuring between 15 and 18 feet long according to early 19th-century surveyor Richard Fenton, rests on three of six large upright stones, though Fenton recorded four supports in 1810, indicating structural shifting over the centuries. Excavated by Frances Lynch in August 1968, the site yielded a pottery vessel containing the cremated ashes of several individuals buried beneath a floor of yellow clay. Named after Saint Samson of Dol, who according to legend placed the capstone with his little finger, the monument is part of approximately 80 dolmens in northern Pembrokeshire reflecting Neolithic maritime cultural exchange along the Irish Sea.