Colston is a hamlet in the
community
A community is a social unit (a group of living things) with commonality such as place, norms, religion, values, customs, or identity. Communities may share a sense of place situated in a given geographical area (e.g. a country, village, tow ...
of
Puncheston
Puncheston ( cy, Cas-mael or Casmael) is a village, parish and community in Pembrokeshire, southwest Wales.
It sits below the mountain known as Castlebythe ( en, Cow Castle), one of the peaks in the Preseli Mountains, just outside the Pembroke ...
in
Pembrokeshire
Pembrokeshire ( ; cy, Sir Benfro ) is a Local government in Wales#Principal areas, county in the South West Wales, south-west of Wales. It is bordered by Carmarthenshire to the east, Ceredigion to the northeast, and the rest by sea. The count ...
, Wales.
The hamlet is the site of a
Neolithic
The Neolithic period, or New Stone Age, is an Old World archaeological period and the final division of the Stone Age. It saw the Neolithic Revolution, a wide-ranging set of developments that appear to have arisen independently in several parts ...
chambered tomb, known as The Altar. The tomb consists of a capstone, 2m by 2m by 0.6m, resting on two upright stones and set on a probable barrow, 30m in diameter.
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Villages in Pembrokeshire
Puncheston