Tag: Caerleon

• What have the Romans ever done for us? Caerleon on the Welsh 100 – No 16

  

      There were only three legionary fortresses in Roman Britain: Caerleon, Chester and York. Caerleon was the permanent garrison base for the II Augustian Legion and was the main base for the subjugation of the Silurians, the tribe who resided in this area. They put up quite a resistance over a number of years…

  Paul Challinor

  February 21, 2015

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