Bronze Age Cairn, Rhossili Down

At least fourteen Bronze Age cairns have been discovered on Rhossili Down. One of the most easily to recognise is very near to the trig point at the top of the Down. Most of the cairns have been plundered for the things that they contained. The Bronze Age people buried their dead in single graves with tools and things that they might have found useful in an afterlife. The Bronze Age people are the ones that were responsible for moving the blue stones from Preseli (the most Westerly Welsh mountain range that can be seen from Rhossili) to Stonehenge.

Goat Hole, Paviland

(Also called Paviland Cave). One of the most famous archaeological sites in Britain, but not an easy approach. Walking boots recommended. Best known for the "Red Lady of Paviland" (a headless skeleton of a man, mistakenly identified as a woman, stained red with ochre) who lived 18000 years ago. Other objects found in the cave include jewellery made from reindeer teeth and mammoth ivory and worked flint tools. Some exhibits can be seen in Swansea museum.
In the last Ice Age, Goat Hole would have been inhabited as an inland cave, overlooking the valley and river towards Devon.

Sweynes Howes, Rhossili Down

(Sometimes called Swine Houses or Sweyn's Howes). Situated on the Eastern slope of Rhossili Down, (over the ridge from the World War II encampment) are two piles of stones. Some of the smaller stones appear to be scattered about, whilst the larger ones cover the remains of a burial chamber. These large tombs were used for communal burial by the New Stone Age people who would have come to Britain about 6000 years ago. There homes would have been made of wood. Similar tombs include Arthur's Stone and Green Cwm.

Pennard Castle, Pennard

The remains of a Norman castle standing high on the cliffs overlooking Pennard Burrows and Three Cliffs Bay.