Carreg Samson

This 5000 year old neolithic dolmen (a tomb) is called Samson because of a legend that Saint Samson of Dol placed the capstone in position with his little finger. It is remarkable as the huge stone - 4.7 metres by 2.7 metres and 1 metre thick - seems to balance precariously on just three of the surrounding six stones.

It is on an exposed coastal site just south of Fishguard (or Abergwaun in Welsh.) In the town hall is a magnificent tapestry, in the style of the one at Bayeux, which describes the last invasion of Britain in 1797. The French thought that an invasion of Wales would be welcomed as an attack on their English oppressors. Not so, and the invaders were routed. The tapestry was made by a group  of local women in 1997.

Today's other superlative was Britain's smallest City, St David's, with population of just 1840. Its 12th century cathedral was deliberately built in a valley in the hope that it would be overlooked by Viking invaders. That ruse did not worked as it was ransacked at least seven times.