The earliest evidence of human beings in Wales dates from about 225,000 BC, the date given to human teeth found in Pontnewydd Cave in the Elwy Valley in Denbighshire.

 A series of Ice Ages meant that Wales was devoid of inhabitants during most of the subsequent millennia. The most significant evidence of the presence in Wales of Palaeolithic or Old Stone Age people is the burial discovered in Paviland Cave in Gower.

 The bones were assumed to be those of a female and, as they had been coloured with red ochre, the skeleton became known as that of the ‘Red Lady of Paviland’,but  the skeleton is now known to be that of a young man and to date from about 24,000 BC.

Paviland, is on The Gower coastline (only a stones throw from Penmaen (not sure if I have spelt that correctly).  At the time when this person was walking around Swansea, the ‘sea view’ would have far away in the distance and trees would have been the main view from Paviland !

 It represents the earliest example in Britain of a ritual burial.