Pont droed dros Afon Ganol - Footbridge over Afon Ganol - geograph

Bryn Euryn (; ) is a hill which is a

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Conwy County Borough Conwy County Borough () is a Principal areas of Wales, county borough in the north Wales, north of Wales. It borders Gwynedd to the west and south and Denbighshire to the east. The largest settlement is Colwyn Bay, and Conwy is the administrativ ...

, Wales. There is a

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at the summit. It lies above the seaside town of

Rhos-on-Sea Rhos-on-Sea () is a seaside resort and community in Conwy County Borough, Wales. The population was 7,593 at the 2011 census. It adjoins Colwyn Bay and is named after the Welsh kingdom of Rhos established there in late Roman Britain as a sub- ...

and village of

Mochdre, Conwy Mochdre () is a village, community and electoral ward to the west of Colwyn Bay in Conwy County Borough, Wales. Originally part of the municipal borough of Colwyn Bay prior to local government reorganisation in April 1974, it is now a separate c ...

. It is 131 metres (430 feet) above sea level, and is listed as a

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. At the bottom of the hill are the remains of

Llys Euryn The ruined remains of Llys Euryn (; ) sit upon a wooded shoulder of Bryn Euryn — a limestone hill on the outskirts of Rhos-on-Sea ({{langx, cy, Llandrillo-yn-Rhos) in the county of Conwy County Borough, Conwy, north Wales. Three sides of the ...

Dinerth

The site commands extensive views of the Conwy Valley and coast, and was once the location of a

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, which was initially excavated in the autumn of 1997 for the

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. The excavations revealed a "massive, well-built" wall formed from quarried limestone, believed to have once been high and to have been fronted by of rubble. There were no archaeological discoveries permitting a certain identification, but the pre-

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layout led

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, the study's director, to connect it with the early-6th century king of Rhos

Cynlas Cuneglasus (floruit, fl. 540) was a prince of Rhos (North Wales), Rhos in Gwynedd, Wales, in the late 5th or early 6th century. He was castigated for various sins by Gildas in ''De Excidio Britanniae''. The Welsh language, Welsh form Cynlas Goch ...

the Red on the basis of the "Bear Den" () mentioned in

Gildas Gildas (English pronunciation: , Breton language, Breton: ''Gweltaz''; ) — also known as Gildas Badonicus, Gildas fab Caw (in Middle Welsh texts and antiquarian works) and ''Gildas Sapiens'' (Gildas the Wise) — was a 6th-century Britons (h ...

's passage on him and the surviving local name of the area as Dinerth (, "Fort Bear"). The hilltop was used again in

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first as an

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by the

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; it was then used by the RAF as one of the first

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posts used to detect German bombers heading to

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Bryn Euryn - A Walk with a View!
1997 archaeological discoveries Rhos-on-Sea Hillforts in Conwy County Borough Mountains and hills of Conwy County Borough Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Clwyd {{UK-SSSI-stub

Dinerth

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