The Preselis

The Preseli Hills rise to a height of 540 metres above the Irish Sea. Their wild and haunting beauty has cast its spell over man since the Stone Age. Around 2500 BC, huge blocks of dolerite were transported some 200 miles from these hills to form the bluestone circle at Stonehenge. You can still see the place where they were quarried today.

From stone circles to massive tombs to ancient cairns and hill-forts, there are more prehistoric monuments per square mile in the Preseli region than anywhere else in Wales outside Anglesey. Some, like the Iron Age fort of Castell Henllys, have been beautifully reconstructed, but most lie untouched in a landscape that probably has not changed much for four thousand years.