A specialist team of archaeologists has been called in after human remains were found under a massive multi-million pound development in west Wales.
Contractors had just begun work on the £6.3m town centre development in Haverfordwest when operations were halted due to the discovery of artefacts and human remains dating back to the 14th Century AD. Pembrokeshire County Council's regeneration of Western Quayside in Haverfordwest will now have to wait for a significant archaeological dig to be completed.
The Dyfed Archaeological Trust will be working at the site for 18 months and confirmed they'd already found the casting pits of an old iron foundry abandoned in 1903. As well as the former 19th to 20th century iron foundry, they've also found evidence of a cemetery believed to be associated with the medieval friary of St. Saviour’s, whose exact location has never been ascertained. It is hoped that remains of friary buildings will be identified.
