Pen Dinas Hill Wellington Monument

Iron Age settlers (around 400BC) used the hilltop called Pen Dinas to build a huge fortification, which dominates the skyline as you approach Aberystwyth from the south.

The Wellington Monument is a stone column built on the summit of the south fort at Pen Dinas as a memorial to the Duke of Wellington around 1858. The main person responsible for seeing to its construction was W.E. Richards of Bryneithin. The monument takes the form of an eighteen metre high upended cannon. It is built of stone rubble and rises from a square podium, the shaft tapers before ariving at a swept out funnel. It is thought that the column was intended to carry a statue at the top, which was never installed. The monument serves to pinpoint the great later prehistoric hillfort crowning the hill (NPRN 92236). The monument was fully restored in 1999, following a lightning strike in 1997, with a replacement rounded slate surround at its top specially made at Blaenau Ffestiniog.

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