Three ancient tombs high above Goodwick have been re-opened to the general public thanks to the generosity of a landowner and the efforts of the Refreshing North Pembrokeshire team.

The three Neolithic cromlechs, built in a line at Garn Wen behind Harbour Village, had become overgrown and many local people were unaware it their existence.

Over the past weeks the undergrowth has been cleared, new interpretive panels put in and a footpath created and fenced off which connects the site with the already-established link to the coast path and creates several circular routes.

The land to create the new path was donated by landowner Raphael Colella.

The tombs are thought to date back to between 4000 and 2500BC. It is believed that they were used as burial sites for important members of society. The dead would have been placed in the chamber along with their possessions and originally would have been covered with earth.

The project to make Garn Wen (White Stones) accessible to the local community was part of Refreshing North Pembrokeshire's original bid to the Coastal Communities Fund.

It has ended up being a multi-agency effort with Pembrokeshire County Council and the Pembrokeshire Coast National Park Authority both playing their part.

"This project has been to re-open Garn Wen and raise awareness of a Neolithic site that very few local people are aware of," said Natalie Pulsaker, Refreshing North Pembrokeshire project manager.

Historian Edward Perkins added that north Pembrokeshire had a collection of Stone Age monuments that was among the biggest of any area in the UK, adding that the reason why stones had been built at particular sites and how they were constructed remained a mystery.

"Garn Fawr and Pencaer were very important to ancient people and Stone Age Man," he said, "The stones tell us people worked here, they slept here, they died here, they caused something to be done."