Pen Dinas Aerial Photograph IMG_2006, originally uploaded by aberystwyth-online.

Bryngaer Pen Dinas Hill-fort

The Hillfort height is 413 feet, positioned to the south of the town, is easily distinguished by a tall column upon it. This is in the shape of a cannon on end and was erected in commemoration of the Battle of Waterloo by a local landowner who was present as an officer on the field.

Long before the Normans began their castle-building program, Iron Age settlers used the hilltop called Pen Dinas to build a huge hillfort (one of the largest in Wales) which still dominates the skyline as you approach Aberystwyth from the south. Consisting of two adjacent fortified areas, each roughly oval in plan. The fort was excavated some years ago and the yield in the way of finds consisted of fragments of iron implements, spindle whorls, tubular fragments of bronze, a stone bead and a very rare type of glass bead.

Royal Commission on the Ancient and Histirical Monuments of Wales

RCAHMW Book on Pen Dinas Hill-fort

Bryngaer Pen Dinas Hill-fort:
A Prehistoric Fortress at Aberystwyth,
by David Browne & Toby Driver
(2001; ISBN 1-871184-24-X) £4.99 + £0.70 p&p

The hill of Pen Dinas is a well-known landmark of the Ceredigion coast. Its twin summits are crowned by one of the largest Iron Age hill-forts in Wales, built over two thousand years ago to protect and control the prehistoric landscape surrounding present-day Aberystwyth. This book tells the story of the hill-fort, and its place in the prehistory of Wales through photographs, maps and plans from the public archives of the National Monuments Record of Wales, Aberystwyth.

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