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Ffyst Samson Burial Chamber is in St Nicholas, Pembrokeshire, Prehistoric Wales Neolithic Burials.
Archaeologia Cambrensis 1872 Pages 81-143. In the adjoining parish of St. Nicholas is a dolmen [Ffyst Samson Burial Chamber [Map]] which might pass for one of the free-standing or tripod ones, as all that is left of the original chamber are two supporters and the capstone, the latter resting on two separate points of one of the supporters. It is 7 ft. 9 ins. long by 6 ft. 7. ins.: measurements which do not agree with those given by Sir Gardner, who gives the breadth only 3 ft. 10 ins., and which is probably an error of the printer. The highest of the two supporters is 5 ft. 8 ins., being 2 ft. more than the other. The thickness of the capstone is a little under 2 ft. The chamber must have been small. Slight remains of the cairn still lie around. The situation is very conspicuous. At a short distance, In the lower ground, stand some pillar-stones; portions, in all probability, of a stone circle.