I may have mentioned before that I hail from Pembrokeshire! Once or twice. In passing. Pembrokeshire is one of the best places in the UK for geology lovers. There is so much variety and so easy to see, especially if you take a boat ride around the coast and islands. Dad and I both have a love of geology but are stumped on these rocks – if anyone can enlighten us as to where these came from we’d be very grateful. 

These are capping stones on the stone walls that run up and around the lighthouse at Strumble Head. The walls are made of a different stone which we think were likely collected from the surrounding fields – it’s a rock that fits in with the locality. These rocks with fossils aren’t local, at least not to our part of North Pembs. My family have lived across Pembs for many generations and dad knows the area, it’s landscape and history well but can’t place where these rocks with fossils could have come from.  

Funnily enough, we have both been visiting Strumble regularly since we were kids (him decidedly longer ago than me!) but it was only two years ago that I spotted these fossils – nice to be able to point out a new thing to dad for a change! There are lots of these capping stones here and each has many white fossils that jump out at you from the dark rock. Look out for them if you’re visiting the lighthouse – seems that even the locals who have visited regularly for seventy-odd years easily miss the tiny things! If you’re not into fossils, it’s a great place to visit to see seal pups, birds and the sunset.