' seem to have chipped off a great many flints in their time: two surface collections from the north coast of Pembrokeshire

Two substantial historic collections of lithic material from the north Pembrokeshire coast are placed on record in more detail than heretofore, and are supplemented in one case by fresh fieldwork. Both collections, at Henllys Farm and Llanferran Farm, contain palimpsests of worked flint and local volcanic rock that represent activity from at least the Late Mesolithic into the Bronze Age (c. 8000-1600 cal BC). Such longevity raises yet again questions of continuities and how, why, and when all this activityfor which there is also so much evidence in the wider region and elsewheretook place. For example, north Pembrokeshire is already well known for the relative density of megalithic settings belonging to the second half of this timespan, but, save for recent fieldwork campaigns in and near the Preseli region, has seen relatively little evidence of other contemporary activity. The information on these two collections perhaps helps to fill something of a vacuum along this extreme southern arm of Cardigan Bay. However, there is no getting away from reiterating the fact that such information on its own is extremely limited and that if all those provocative questions are to be addressed then this needs fresh fieldwork, excavation and analysis.