Pen Dinas

Pen Dinas is a large hill in Penparcau, on the coast of Ceredigion, Wales, upon which an extensive Iron Age, Celtic hillfort is situated [1]. The hillfort actually consists of two separate forts built many years apart, which were later combined to form a larger structure [1]. The first fort to be constructed was on the lower northern summit [1]. It consists of an outer ditch and inner rampart of rubble [1]. It would originally have been surmounted by a wooden palisade [1]. The main gateway is on the western side and is formed by a stone lined gap in the ditch and bank [1]. After this first fort was eventually abandoned several decades passed before work began on a new fortification on the higher summit to the south [1].