Madam,

I read with interest your article in the Cambrian News by reporter Caleb Spencer on the warning given by CADW to people using metal detectors and any digging up of ground on Pen Dinas Iron Age hillfort.

Former mayor of Aberystwyth Dylan Lewis is quoted as saying that he witnessed three people engaged in a digging activity on Sunday, 8 January, and that he has reported the incident to CADW whom he claims will inform the police of this activity on Pen Dinas, an area which is described by St Fagans Natural History Museum as one of the largest and most important hillforts in west Wales.

As the location of this Pen Dinas hillfort runs steeply down to the River Ystwyth on the west side and down to the River Rheidol on the eastern side, this warning begs the question as to where the boundaries are of the ground of the Hill Fort coming under the protection of CADW, as both Dylan Lewis and I live in dwellings built on Pen Dinas hillFort land in Maes-Maelor, as do many other residents in Maesheli and other sites in Penparcau. We regularly dig our gardens.

Are we residents on Pendinas now breaking the law with this garden activity and in fear of being reported to CADW, including Mr Lewis himself as a resident?

Some clarification please on CADW boundaries.

Yours etc,

Name and address supplied.

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