Caerwent (Welsh: Caer-went) is a village and community in Monmouthshire, Wales. It is located about five miles west of Chepstow and 11 miles east of Newport. It was founded by the Romans as the market town of Venta Silurum, an important settlement of the Brythonic Silures tribe. The modern village is built around the Roman ruins, which are some of the best-preserved in Europe. It remained prominent through the Roman era and Early Middle Ages as the site of a road crossing between several important civic centres. The community includes Llanvair Discoed. The village itself had a population of about 1,200.[2]
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Caerwent (Welsh: Caer-went) is a village and community in Monmouthshire, Wales. It is located about five miles west of Chepstow and 11 miles east of Newport...
Caerwent Training Area is a British military installation at Caerwent, Monmouthshire, Wales. The large military site is situated north of the A48 road...
Romanisation. The only town in Wales founded by the Romans, Caerwent, is in south east Wales. Both Caerwent and Carmarthen, also in southern Wales, became Roman...
Roman Britain (Britannia). Today it consists of remains in the village of Caerwent in Monmouthshire, south east Wales. Much of it has been archaeologically...
Clifton Antiquarian Club, supervisor of the excavations undertaken by the Caerwent Exploration Fund, and author of "Richard Ameryk and the name America."...
like the Gauls or the Spaniards. The Iron Age hillfort at Llanmelin near Caerwent has sometimes been suggested as a pre-Roman tribal centre. But some archaeologists[who...
three inscriptions in Roman Britain. He is twice invoked on dedications at Caerwent: one stone is the base of a statue of which only a pair of human feet and...
Party, he was a member of Caerwent community council, serving as its chairman in 1991. He was instrumental in setting up Caerwent Historic Trust, becoming...
(Aquae Arnemetiae) Caerleon (Isca Augusta) C Caernarfon (Segontium) C Caerwent (Venta Silurum) C Caister-on-Sea C Canterbury (Durovernum Cantiacorum)...
Usk and Caerwent as a boy; all of these places had been settled by the Romans. He wrote that "strange relics" were frequently found at Caerwent from the...
of Gwent). She was buried in the monastery at Caerwent, now the parish church of St. Stephen at Caerwent, by Saint Tathan to whom the bandits had confessed...
change in the Brythonic languages from v to gu. The town itself became Caerwent, "Fort Venta". According to one Old Welsh genealogy, the founder of the...
factory for the Royal Navy, The Royal Navy Propellant Factory, Caerwent, opened at Caerwent in Wales. A very large Royal Ordnance Factory, ROF Bishopton...
Christian church. He is reckoned an early abbot of Caerwent and has dedications at Llanvaches, near Caerwent, also known as Llandathan, and at St Athan. He...
the Isle of Man and in Wales at Barry in the Vale of Glamorgan and at Caerwent and other areas of Monmouthshire. Other scenes were at Squamish, British...
could still be seen; this is a likely reference to the Roman ruins at Caerwent. In 1542, John Leland reported that the locals around Cadbury Castle (formerly...
5th-century saint of South Wales, and founder of a monastic school at Caerwent where he instructed many of the leading figures of the early Welsh church...
Temenos area in the Romano-British temple complex of the Roman town of Caerwent in Wales The concept of temenos arose in classical antiquity as an area...
Britain, there were three tribal capitals named "U̯entā" (modern Winchester, Caerwent and Caistor St Edmunds), whose meaning was 'place, town'. Some, including...
Camboglanna on Hadrian's Wall. Campus Elleti in Glamorgan. Caerwent. Llanmelin hill fort near Caerwent. Camelford, Cornwall. Camaret, Brittany, France. Saltwell...
booby-trapped abandoned warehouse scenes in "Fragments" were filmed at RAF Caerwent, near Chepstow. The third series opened in the traditional setting, but...
capital of the Demetae tribe. The only town in Wales founded by the Romans, Caerwent, is located in South Wales. Wales was a rich source of mineral wealth,...
× 23 m). The smallest known basilica in Britain was built by the Silures at Caerwent and measured 180 by 100 feet (55 m × 30 m). When Londinium became a colonia...
Kingdom 75 AD Moridunum Carmarthen United Kingdom 75 AD Venta Silurum Caerwent United Kingdom 79 AD Deva Victrix Chester United Kingdom 79 AD Mamucium...
Llandaff in 1946. RAF Caerwent Wales Monmouthshire 1967 1993 Transferred to the Defence Training Estate and became the Caerwent Training Area, predominately...
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