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Maximus ruled the Roman West until he was killed in 388. A succession of governors ruled southeastern Britain until 407, but there is nothing to suggest that any Roman effort was made to regain control of the west or north after 383; that year was the definitive end of the Roman era in Wales.
Bridgend County Borough stretches from the south coast of Wales up to the southern edge of the Brecon Beacons. The 57 scheduled monuments cover over 4,000 years of the history of this part of South Wales. There are chambered tombs of the Neolithic, and burial cairns and standing stones of the Bronze Age, Iron Age hillforts, and a Roman villa ...
Historically, Wales and the south-western peninsula were known respectively as North Wales and West Wales. [22] The Celtic north of England and southern Scotland was referred to in Welsh as Hen Ogledd ("old north"). The struggles of this period have given rise to the legends of Uther Pendragon and King Arthur.
A farmer in Wales had a field that just made life too difficult. He was continually hitting slate and stone. It turns out, there was a good reason for all the struggle: a buried Roman fort.. Mark ...
Roman Wales was the farthest point west that the Roman Empire in Roman Britain extended to, and as a defence point, the fortress at Caerleon built in AD 75 was one of only three permanent Roman Legionary fortresses in Roman Britain. It was occupied and operational for just over 200 years.
The Roman villa is the first and only one of its kind discovered in Ceredigion and is the most remote Roman villa in Wales. It was home to Ceredigion's earliest slated roof, parts of which are on display along with excavated finds in the Ceredigion Museum , Aberystwyth.
Burrium was a legionary fortress in the Roman province of Britannia Superior or Roman Britain. Its remains today lie beneath the town of Usk in Monmouthshire, south east Wales. The Romans founded the 48 acres (19 ha) fortress around AD 55, probably for the Legio XX Valeria Victrix (20th Legion) and perhaps an additional ala of 500 cavalrymen. [3]
The Demetae were a Celtic people of Iron Age and Roman period, who inhabited modern Pembrokeshire and Carmarthenshire in south-west Wales. The tribe also gave their name to the medieval Kingdom of Dyfed, the modern area and county of Dyfed and the distinct dialect of Welsh spoken in modern south-west Wales, Dyfedeg.