List of scheduled monuments in Swansea
The city and county of Swansea covers, in addition to the port city of Swansea, areas of upland to the north, and the Gower peninsula to the west. It is on Gower that the earliest scheduled monuments are found. Three sites have evidence of habitation from the Paleolithic, a time before the last ice age. These include the oldest rock painting in Britain and the earliest known burial in Western Europe. There are in total 124 scheduled sites. Prehistoric sites of many sorts are found, particularly on Gower. 64 pre-historic sites are from Paleolithic to Iron Age dates, and include caves, burial mounds and tombs, cairns, defensive enclosures, hillforts and promentary forts. Roman and early medieval sites, by contrast are scarce. The post-Norman Medieval period, by contrast, has 26 sites, 17 of them castles or other defensive monuments. The other nine are all ecclesiastical monuments. The 26 post-medieval monuments are more diverse, including industrial and maritime sites, but also leats, quarries, a mill and even an observatory and an orchid house. All of the Swansea administrative area lies within the historic county of Glamorgan.
Scheduled monuments have statutory protection. It is illegal to disturb the ground surface or any standing remains. The compilation of the list is undertaken by Cadw Welsh Historic Monuments, which is an executive agency of the National Assembly of Wales. The list of scheduled monuments below is supplied by Cadw with additional material from RCAHMW and Glamorgan-Gwent Archaeological Trust.
Scheduled monuments in Swansea
| Image | Name | Site type | Community | Location | Details | Period | SAM No & Refs |
| Longhole Cave | Cave | Port Eynon | , SS451850 | Cave with Paleolithic flint tools | Prehistoric | GM391 | |
| Paviland Cave | Cave | Rhossili | , SS437859 | Paleolithic burial cave known as 'Goat's Cave'. Buried 33,000 years ago, the remains found in 1823 are the oldest known ceremonial burial in Western Europe. | Prehistoric | GM504 | |
| Cathole Cave | Cave | Ilston | , SS537900 | Cave on Gower, occupied over 30,000 years from Palaeolithic to Medieval times. In 2010 engraved rock art was found of a reindeer, dated to upwards of 12,000 BC, making it the oldest rock art in the British Isles. | Prehistoric | GM349 | |
| Cefn Bryn Burial Chamber | Chambered long cairn | Ilston | , SS507887 | A Chambered long cairn towards the base of the Cefn Bryn ridge | Prehistoric | GM167 | |
| Parc Cwm long cairn | Chambered long cairn | Ilston | , SS537898 | Chambered tomb in which human remains were interred over a 300 to 800-year period in the Neolithic. Discovered in 1869, and brought into public ownership and partly reconstructed in 1961, it had a detailed excavation in 1998. | Prehistoric | GM122 | |
| Penmaen Burrows Burial Chamber | Chambered tomb | Ilston | , SS531881 | Megalithic burial chamber first excavated in 1860. Now being inundated by sand dunes. | Prehistoric | GM123 | |
| Sweyne's Howe Chambered Cairns | Chambered tomb | Llangennith, Llanmadoc and Cheriton | , SS421898 | Three Neolithic and later chambered tombs in varying states of collapse, on the upper eastern slopes of Rhossili Down. | Prehistoric | GM027 | |
| Two Burial Chambers on Graig Fawr | Chambered tomb | Pontardulais | , SN608062 | Prehistoric | GM513 | ||
| Bon y Maen Standing Stone | Standing stone | Bonymaen | , SS678952 | A sandstone monolith on the eastern edge of Swansea, on a ridge between the Tawe valley and Crymlyn Bog. | Prehistoric | GM177 | |
| Cockett standing stone | Standing stone | Cockett | , SS625947 | Prehistoric | GM582 | ||
| Llethrid Tooth Cave | Cave | Ilston | , SS531909 | Early Bronze Age ossuary in a cave 1.4 km from Parc Cwm long cairn, and may be contemporary with later burials there. | Prehistoric | GM284 | |
| Culver Hole | Cave | Llangennith, Llanmadoc and Cheriton | , SS405929 | Coastal cave near Burry Holms and Three Chimneys, in which were found human remains and artefacts from all periods from Bronze Age through to the 9th century AD. | Prehistoric | GM087 | |
| Arthur's Stone, Cefn Bryn | Chambered tomb | Llanrhidian Lower | , SS491905 | Double stone chambered tomb, capped by a huge capstone, which probably always was exposed above the mound. Also called Maen Ceti, it may have been in situ before the tomb was excavated under it. | Prehistoric | GM003 | |
| Lower Greyhound Inn Standing Stones | Standing stone | Llanrhidian Lower | , SS486920 | Prehistoric | GM152 | ||
| Samson's Jack | Standing stone | Llanrhidian Lower | , SS476921 | Standing stone, 3.2m high, embedded in a field boundary bank. It is also known as Mansel Jank | Prehistoric | GM133 | |
| Ty'r Coed standing stone | Standing stone | Llanrhidian Lower | , SS475916 | Standing stone, 2.5m high, embedded in a field boundary bank. | Prehistoric | GM151 | |
| Mynydd Pysgodlyn Round Barrow | Round barrow | Mawr | , SN635048 | Prehistoric | GM202 | ||
| Berry Ringwork | Ringwork | Port Eynon | , SS472884 | Prehistoric | GM178 | ||
| Burry Lesser Standing Stone | Standing stone | Port Eynon | , SS462900 | Prehistoric | GM150 | ||
| Burry Menhir | Standing stone | Port Eynon | , SS464900 | Prehistoric | GM134 | ||
| Burry Standing Stone | Standing stone | Port Eynon | , SS468891 | Prehistoric | GM191 | ||
| Newton henge, cropmark | Henge | Port Eynon | , SS446881 | Prehistoric | GM580 | ||
| Cave 40m SE of Deborah's Hole | Cave site | Rhossili | , SS434862 | Natural cave overlooking the seas, with a Bronze Age mound at the entrance | Prehistoric | GM622 | |
| Round Cairn with Cist on Mynydd Drumau | Round cairn | Clydach,, | , SN724003 | Prehistoric | GM387 | ||
| Cairns on Cefn Bryn | Round cairn | Ilston | , SS520889 | Prehistoric | GM038 | ||
| Cefn Bryn Burnt Mound | Burnt mound | Ilston | , SS519892 | Prehistoric | GM543 | ||
| Burnt Mound on Rhossili Down | Burnt mound | Llangennith, Llanmadoc and Cheriton | , SS419905 | Prehistoric | GM476 | ||
| Llanmadoc Hill, cairn on E end of | Round cairn | Llangennith, Llanmadoc and Cheriton | , SS439927 | A large round cairn, 21metres across, offset within an earlier ring-cairn measuring some 30metres in diameter. | Prehistoric | GM579 | |
| Llanmadoc Hill, cairn on W end of | Round cairn | Llangennith, Llanmadoc and Cheriton | , SS429924 | Round cairn some 17 metres in diameter, covered in vegetation, near the trig point. The pile of stones in its centre is presumed to be a recent addition by walkers. | Prehistoric | GM578 | |
| Round Cairn on Bessie's Meadow | Round cairn | Llangennith, Llanmadoc and Cheriton | , SS418900 | A good example of an upland cairn, having both kerb and cist still intact. Part of a wider group of burial cairns, it is just below the northern summit of Rhossili Down. | Prehistoric | GM498 | |
| Burnt Mound 300m SW of Arthur's Stone | Burnt mound | Llanrhidian Lower | , SS488904 | Prehistoric | GM436 | ||
| Burnt Mound North of Arthur's Stone | Burnt mound | Llanrhidian Lower | , SS489908 | Prehistoric | GM544 | ||
| Pen-y-Crug Round Barrow | Round barrow | Llanrhidian Lower | , SS510913 | Prehistoric | GM153 | ||
| Round Cairn W of Arthur's Stone | Round cairn | Llanrhidian Lower | , SS490905 | Prehistoric | GM196 | ||
| Cairn 250m SW of Banc Llyn-Mawr | Round cairn | Mawr | , SN626070 | Prehistoric | GM384 | ||
| Pant-y-Ffa Round Cairn | Round cairn | Mawr | , SN618027 | Prehistoric | GM201 | ||
| Ring Cairn on Tor Clawdd | Ring cairn | Mawr | , SN670062 | Prehistoric | GM353 | ||
| Garn Goch Round Barrow | Round barrow | Penllergaer | , SS605980 | Prehistoric | GM199 | ||
| Rhossili Down Round Cairns | Round cairn | Rhossili | , SS420890 | Prehistoric | GM194 | ||
| Bishopston Valley Camp | Promontory Fort - inland | Bishopston | , SS569878 | Prehistoric | GM126 | ||
| Caswell Cliff Fort | Promontory Fort - coastal | Bishopston | , SS588875 | Prehistoric | GM132 | ||
| Burry Holms Camp | Promontory Fort - coastal | Llangennith, Llanmadoc and Cheriton | , SS398925 | Prehistoric | GM088 | ||
| Enclosure on Rhossili Down | Enclosure | Llangennith, Llanmadoc and Cheriton | , SS423898 | Prehistoric | GM487 | ||
| The Bulwark, Llanmadoc Hill | Hillfort | Llangennith, Llanmadoc and Cheriton | , SS443927 | Prehistoric | GM061 | ||
| Three Camps on Harding's Down | Hillfort | Llangennith, Llanmadoc and Cheriton | , SS437906 | Prehistoric | GM060 | ||
| Earthwork 108m NNW of Fforest Newydd | Enclosure | Llangyfelach | , SS636015 | Prehistoric | GM308 | ||
| Dan-y-Lan Camp | Enclosure | Llanrhidian Higher | , SS554957 | Prehistoric | GM268 | ||
| Gron-Gaer | Enclosure | Llanrhidian Higher | , SS550947 | Prehistoric | GM197 | ||
| Pen-y-Gaer | Hillfort | Llanrhidian Higher | , SS536955 | Prehistoric | GM198 | ||
| Cil Ifor Promontory Fort | Promontory Fort - inland | Llanrhidian Lower | , SS505923 | Prehistoric | GM124 | ||
| Stembridge Camp | Hillfort | Llanrhidian Lower | , SS469914 | Prehistoric | GM125 | ||
| Ring Cairn on Craig Fawr | Earthwork | Mawr | , SN628066 | Prehistoric | GM380 | ||
| High Pennard | Earthwork | Pennard | , SS567866 | Prehistoric | GM045 | ||
| Earthwork on Graig Fawr | Hillfort | Pontardulais | , SN618068 | Prehistoric | GM386 | ||
| Earthwork 450m SW of Llanddewi Church | Enclosure | Port Eynon | , SS455783 | Prehistoric | GM334 | ||
| Reynoldston Camp | Enclosure | Reynoldston | , SS483899 | Prehistoric | GM195 | ||
| Deborah's Hole Camp | Promontory Fort - coastal | Rhossili | , SS431863 | Also known as 'The Knave Promontory fort', this double embankment encloses an area 52m x 44m, perched against 60m high sea cliffs. Excavated in 1938. Occupation pottery was dated c50 BC to 50 AD | Prehistoric | GM128 | |
| Horse Cliff Camp | Promontory Fort - coastal | Rhossili | , SS435860 | Prehistoric | GM192 | ||
| Lewes Castle Promontory Fort | Promontory Fort - coastal | Rhossili | , SS414873 | Prehistoric | GM470 | ||
| Old Castle Camp | Promontory Fort - coastal | Rhossili | , SS409880 | Prehistoric | GM193 | ||
| Paviland Camp | Promontory Fort - coastal | Rhossili | , SS437859 | Prehistoric | GM131 | ||
| Promontory Fort on Worms Head | Promontory Fort - coastal | Rhossili | , SS393875 | Prehistoric | GM492 | ||
| Thurba Camp | Promontory Fort - coastal | Rhossili | , SS421870 | Prehistoric | GM127 | ||
| Earthwork on Kilvey Hill | Enclosure | St Thomas | , SS673947 | Prehistoric | GM315 | ||
| Church Hill Romano-British Enclosure | Enclosure | Ilston | , SS536898 | Roman | GM603 | ||
| Mynydd Carn-Goch Roman Earthworks | Practice camp | Llwchwr | , SS608971 | Roman | GM269 | ||
| Roman Practice Camp on Stafford Common | Practice camp | Llwchwr | , SS591973 | Roman | GM502 | ||
| Medieval Hermitage Site on Burry Holms | Hermitage | Llangennith, Llanmadoc and Cheriton | , SS401925 | Early Medieval | GM473 | ||
| St Cennydd's Church Cross-shaft | Cross shaft | Llangennith, Llanmadoc and Cheriton | , SS428914 | Early Medieval | GM621 | ||
| St Madoc's Church Cross-incised Stones | Cross | Llangennith, Llanmadoc and Cheriton | , SS438934 | Early Medieval | GM223 | ||
| Llangyfelach Cross-Base | Cross | Llangyfelach | , SS646989 | Early Medieval | GM299 | ||
| Cross-Slab from Woodlands, Stout Hall | Cross-marked stone | Reynoldston | , SS479900 | Early Medieval | GM089 | ||
| Chantry Acre medieval chapel | Chapel | Bishopston | , SS576881 | Medieval | GM548 | ||
| Old Castle Camp | Ringwork | Bishopston | , SS582900 | Medieval | GM154 | ||
| Original Swansea Castle | Castle | Castle | , SS657931 | Medieval | GM441 | ||
| Swansea Castle | Castle | Castle | , SS657930 | Medieval | GM012 | ||
| St Michael's Chapel, Cwrt-y-Carne | Chapel | Gorseinon | , SN571004 | Medieval | GM363 | ||
| Llandeilo Castle Mound | Motte | Grovesend | , SN586026 | Medieval | GM200 | ||
| Penmaen Burrows Church | Church | Ilston | , SS531881 | Headland inundated by sand by the 14th century, burying the now-ruined stone church. Excavated, 1861 and remains sunk into sand and overgrowth. | Medieval | GM130 | |
| Penmaen Burrows Ringwork | Ringwork | Ilston | , SS534880 | Medieval | GM129 | ||
| Trinity Well and Remains of Chapel | Chapel | Ilston | , SS552894 | Medieval | GM158 | ||
| Bovehill Castle | Manor | Llangennith, Llanmadoc and Cheriton | , SS464932 | Medieval | GM149 | ||
| North Hill Tor Camp | Enclosure | Llangennith, Llanmadoc and Cheriton | , SS452937 | Medieval | GM062 | ||
| Llanelen Chapel Site | Chapel | Llanrhidian Lower | , SS511933 | Medieval | GM376 | ||
| Weobley Castle | Castle | Llanrhidian Lower | , SS478927 | Medieval | GM010 | ||
| Loughor Castle | Castle | Llwchwr | , SS564979 | Founded by Henry de Beaumont, 1st Earl of Warwick from 1106, it is built into the corner of the Roman fort of Leucarum. Over 250 turbulent years it was progressively rebuilt in stone. Only one substantial tower now remains, overlooking the estuary in a park in lower Loughor. | Medieval | GM046 | |
| Cae Castell | Earthwork | Mawr | , SN694047 | Medieval | GM439 | ||
| Penlle'r Castell | Castle | Mawr | , SN665096 | Medieval | GM255 | ||
| Oystermouth Castle | Castle | Mumbles | , SS613883 | Medieval | GM007 | ||
| Pennard Castle & Church | Castle | Pennard | , SS544885 | Medieval | GM044 | ||
| Norton Camp | Ringwork | Penrice | , SS491867 | Medieval | GM157 | ||
| Oxwich Castle | Castle | Penrice | , SS497862 | Medieval | GM043 | ||
| Penrice Castle | Castle | Penrice | , SS497884 | Medieval | GM047 | ||
| Penrice Ringwork | Ringwork | Penrice | , SS492878 | Medieval | GM053 | ||
| Tower NE of Oxwich Castle | Tower | Penrice | , SS498863 | Medieval | GM472 | ||
| Site of St Teilo's Old Parish Church | Church | Pontardulais | , SN584030 | Site of St Teilo's Old Parish Church, Llandeilo, Talybont. The church was removed to St Fagans National History Museum | Medieval | GM415 | |
| St Maurice's Church | Church | Port Eynon | , SS468890 | Medieval | GM156 | ||
| Remains of Medieval Building & Church at Rhossili | Building | Rhossili | , SS415883 | Medieval | GM414 | ||
| Scott's Pit Engine House & Traces of Ancillary Buildings | Engine house | Birchgrove | , SS697982 | Post-Medieval/Modern | GM336 | ||
| St Peter's Chapel & Well, Caswell Bay | Chapel | Bishopston | , SS590883 | Post-Medieval/Modern | GM374 | ||
| Morfa Bridge and Quays | Bridge | Bonymaen | , SS664954 | Post-Medieval/Modern | GM392 | ||
| Clydach Upper Forge | Industrial monument | Clydach | , SN686019 | Post-Medieval/Modern | GM497 | ||
| Melin Mynach, Gorseinon | Mill | Gorseinon | , SS592990 | Post-Medieval/Modern | GM501 | ||
| Parc le Breos Limekiln and Quarries | Limekiln | Ilston | , SS537898 | Post-Medieval/Modern | GM536 | ||
| Industrial monument | Landore | , SS661949 | Post-Medieval/Modern | GM483 | - | ||
| Landore New Quay | Quay | Landore | , SS662958 | Post-Medieval/Modern | GM484 | ||
| Morris Castle | Building | Landore | , SS659964 | Post-Medieval/Modern | GM371 | ||
| Whiteford Lighthouse | Lighthouse | Llangennith, Llanmadoc and Cheriton | , SS443972 | Iron Lighthouse at Whitford Point | Post-Medieval/Modern | GM407 | |
| Penclawdd Sea Dock and Canal | Dockyard | Llanrhidian Higher | , SS552960 | Post-Medieval/Modern | GM398 | ||
| Gwernllwynchwyth Engine House | Engine house | Llansamlet | , SS697979 | Post-Medieval/Modern | GM430 | ||
| Townshend's Great Leat & Waggonway | Industrial monument | Llansamlet | , SS696978 | Post-Medieval/Modern | GM468 | ||
| Clyne Valley Shaft Mounds | Coal Mine | Mumbles | , SS609918 | Post-Medieval/Modern | GM455 | ||
| Clyne Wood Arsenic & Copper Works | Industrial monument | Mumbles | , SS614908 | Post-Medieval/Modern | GM475 | ||
| Clyne Wood Coal Level | Coal Mine | Mumbles | , SS612912 | Post-Medieval/Modern | GM464 | ||
| Clyne Wood Colliery Steam Winding Machine | Industrial monument | Mumbles | , SS603920 | Post-Medieval/Modern | GM469 | ||
| Ynys Pit & Leat | Aqueduct | Mumbles | , SS613920 | Post-Medieval/Modern | GM461 | ||
| Limestone Quarry and Kiln at Oxwich | Limekiln | Penrice | , SS498864 | Post-Medieval/Modern | GM542 | ||
| Culver Hole Dovecot | Dovecote | Port Eynon | , SS465845 | Post-Medieval/Modern | GM325 | ||
| The Salthouse, Port Eynon | Saltworks | Port Eynon | , SS469846 | Post-Medieval/Modern | GM471 | ||
| Foxhole River Staithes | Staithes | St Thomas | , SS662941 | Post-Medieval/Modern | GM482 | ||
| White Rock Copper Works | Industrial monument | St Thomas | , SS662947 | Post-Medieval/Modern | GM481 | ||
| Penllergaer Orchideous House | Garden building | Penllergaer | , SS624987 | Post Medieval/Modern | GM596 | ||
| Remains of Astronomical Observatory at Penllergaer | Observatory | Penllergaer | , SS622990 | Post-Medieval/Modern | GM410 | ||
| Oxwich Bay Coast Defence/Chain Home Low Radar Station | Radar Station | Penrice | , SS508849 | Post-Medieval/Modern | GM602 |