https://wikishire.co.uk/w/index.php?title=Caerwent&feed=atom&action=historyCaerwent - Revision history2024-03-29T11:21:14ZRevision history for this page on the wikiMediaWiki 1.25.5https://wikishire.co.uk/w/index.php?title=Caerwent&diff=53619&oldid=prevRB at 20:11, 30 December 20172017-12-30T20:11:51Z<p></p>
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</table>Owainhttps://wikishire.co.uk/w/index.php?title=Caerwent&diff=22245&oldid=prevOwain: Created page with "{{Infobox town |name=Caerwent |county=Monmouthshire |picture=Caerwent.jpg |picture caption=Roman building foundations and the tower of the parish church |os grid ref=ST470905 ..."2014-07-07T12:41:15Z<p>Created page with "{{Infobox town |name=Caerwent |county=Monmouthshire |picture=Caerwent.jpg |picture caption=Roman building foundations and the tower of the parish church |os grid ref=ST470905 ..."</p>
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'''Caerwent''' is a village and parish in [[Monmouthshire]]. It is located about five miles west of [[Chepstow]] and eleven miles east of [[Newport, Monmouthshire|Newport]], and was originally 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.<br />
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==History==<br />
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It was founded by the Romans in AD 75 as ''Venta Silurum'', a market town for the defeated Silures tribe. This is confirmed by inscriptions on the "Civitas Silurum" stone, now on display in the parish church.<ref>[http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/100659 Photograph of church]</ref> Large sections of the Roman town walls are still in place, rising up to 5 metres high in places. Historian John Newman has described the walls as "easily the most impressive town defence to survive from Roman Britain, and in its freedom from later rebuilding one of the most perfectly preserved in Northern Europe."<ref name=Newman>John Newman, ''The Buildings of Wales: Gwent/Monmouthshire'', 2000, ISBN 0-14-071053-1</ref> In 1881 a portion of a highly intricate coloured floor mosaic or tessellated pavement, depicting different types of fish, were unearthed during excavations in the garden of a cottage.<ref>Morgan, Octavius (1882), "Goldcliff and the Ancient Roman Inscribed Stone Found There 1878", Monmouthshire & Caerleon Antiquarian Association.</ref><br />
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Excavations in 1971 dated the north-west polygonal angle-tower to the mid-300s.<ref>[http://www.ecastles.co.uk/caerwent.html E-castles: Caerwent]</ref> Further excavations were carried out in 2008 by Wessex Archaeology as part of the Channel 4 TV programme ''Time Team''.<ref>[http://www.scribd.com/doc/14675495/Caerwent-Monmouthshire Wessex Archaeology, ''Caerwent Roman Town: Archaeological Evaluation and Assessment of Results'', February 2009]</ref> Modern houses are built on top of part of the old Roman market place. The ruins of several Roman buildings are still visible, including the foundations of a 4th-century Roman temple.<ref>[http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/486475 Photograph of temple foundations]</ref> The fact that most of the houses lacked mosaic or hypocaust-heated floors, however, suggests that despite its size, Caerwent never achieved the cultural level of other Romano-British tribal capitals.<ref>[http://www.roman-sites.com/wales/caerwent/caerwent.htm Caerwent at Roman-Sites.com]</ref><br />
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===Early Christian times===<br />
Caerwent was a centre for the Kingdom of [[Gwent]] after the Roman occupation. The name Caerwent translates from Welsh as "fort of Gwent", and the name Gwent derives from the Roman name ''Venta (Silurum)''. The English town name of Winchester has a parallel derivation, ultimately from the combination of the Latin words ''Venta'', in that case, ''Venta Belgarum'', and ''castra''.<ref>Hywel Wyn Owen, ''The Place-Names of Wales'', 1998, ISBN 0-7083-1458-9</ref><br />
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Caerwent remained an important centre, where the road between [[Gloucester]] and [[Caerleon]] met the north-south road from [[Shrewsbury]], via [[Monmouth]] and [[Trellech]], to the sea at Portskewett. Excavations at Caerwent have revealed remains and everyday objects from the post-Roman period. Metalwork, including elaborate penannular brooches and fastening pins, have been dated to the 5th-7th centuries. A large number of Christian burials, some stone-lined, dating from between the 4th and 9th centuries have also been discovered, both around the town's East Gate and close to the parish church.<ref name=howell>Raymond Howell, ''A History of Gwent'', 1988, ISBN 0-86383-338-1, p.34</ref> It has been suggested that it may have been the birthplace of St. Patrick.<ref name=imrie>Rodney Imrie, ''The Parish Church of St. Stephen and St. Tathan, Caerwent'', 2004</ref><br />
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[[File:Kite aeria photo of Caerwent.jpg|thumbnail|right|Near infra-red kite aerial photo of the north wall of Caerwent]]<br />
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A monastery was established at Caerwent some time before the 10th century, and a pre-Norman cross head was discovered at the site in 1992.<ref name=Newman/> The current church is dedicated to Saints Stephen and Tathan, the latter name possibly having arisen through confusion with Saint Tathyw. The oldest existing part of the church dates to the 13th century.<ref name=Newman/><br />
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==Modern era==<br />
During World War II a Royal Navy Propellant Factory was established at Caerwent, immediately north of the A48 road. Between 1967 and 1993 this was used as a storage station for the Royal Air Force and the United States Air Force; since that time it has been used as an army training facility and on occasion as a filming location for large scale productions such as ''Captain America: The First Avenger''.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://blogs.coventrytelegraph.net/thegeekfiles/2010/07/captain-america-to-film-war-sc.html |title=Captain America to film war scenes in Wales |first=David |last=Bently |work=Coventry Telegraph |date=2010-07-07 |accessdate=2010-10-21}} [http://www.webcitation.org/5v62f5icZ WebCitation Archive].</ref><br />
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Caerwent is now a small village, largely bypassed by the busy A48 road running between the city of Newport to the west and Chepstow to the east. It has two pubs, the Coach and Horses and the Northgate Inn.<br />
[[File:Pub sign, Northgate Inn, Caerwent.jpg|thumb|150px|Northgate Inn pup sign]]<br />
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==References==<br />
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==Outside links==<br />
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*[http://vimeo.com/34157960/ Aerial video showing many parts of Roman Caerwent]<br />
*[http://www.caerwentcom.com/ Caerwent community website] <br />
*[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/south_east/7481869.stm BBC News: 'Stylish' Roman life found on dig (30 June 2008)] Retrieved 25 January 2009.</div>Owain