Name: Wellington Monument, Pen Dinas
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Location: Aberystwyth, Ceredigion, South Wales, Wales, United Kingdom

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Zoe Evans

September 1, 2022

The Wellington Monument is a stone column built on the summit of the south fort at Pen Dinas. A memorial to the Duke of Wellington, it was probably erected in 1858 or a year or two before. 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 at statue at the top, which was never installed. The monument serves to pinpoint the great later prehistoric hillfort crowning the hill. 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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Location: Aberystwyth, Ceredigion, South Wales, Wales, United Kingdom

Wellington Monument, Pen Dinas

1. View of Aberystwyth Coast – View of Tan Y Bwlch Beach loop from Aberystwyth

2. Wellington Monument, Pen Dinas – View of Aberystwyth Coast loop from Penparcau

3. Wellington Monument, Pen Dinas – View of Tan Y Bwlch Beach loop from Aberystwyth

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