Pen Dinas, Aberystwyth

A collection of pictures and videos taken on the way up to Pen Dinas peak and back down again. Includes pictures of Aberystwyth harbour and castle, the National Library of Wales, the Aber beaches, Constitution Hill, Alexandra Halls, The Royal Pier and some amazing sunsets. Also, there's some good pics and vids of the Napoleonic tower (if you're too lazy to go and see it for yourself!).

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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.
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[steffsflip]

I just saw my house, I live right in front of it! It's a great place and there's a rope swing if you go up the wright way. Fab place, full of fab people!

[xkillzbillzx]

Good old Aber. :D

[AntistarMorok]

OMG This is so beautiful...

[Teifi71]

Pen Dinas is right opposite my Kitchen Window. Can see the Hill and Cannon on top.

It's great Walking up there during the Winter when the Wind and Sea are wild.

[graysonhugh1]

I was here in June 1987, in the land of my fathers, while writing songs for my 1988 RCA record "Blind To Reason". Climbed up Pen Dinas and felt the ancestral gravity of the earth. This is a beautiful video. Diolch! Iechyd da!

-Grayson Hugh

[SteffanLlwyd]

The white building at 0:34 was the Isolation Hospital where people were imprisoned in the days before the development of effective drug treatments.

[SteffanLlwyd]

Every twenty years or, so all the gorse (furze) on the south side goes up like a furnace. (Nothing to do with me!)

[SteffanLlwyd]

'Know every inch. But Aberystwyth teachers were very hard on its children in the Sixties...if you were from Commins Coch or Penparcau. Class is a deadly thing in a small town...