Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Fforest Gwladys Roman practice camp
Gelligaer, Caerphilly, Wales
A scheduled monument in Gelligaer, Caerphilly, recorded as Practice Camp (Roman).
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Practice Camp
- Period
- Roman
- Community
- Gelligaer
- Unitary authority
- Caerphilly
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 51.68377, -3.25797
- SAM number
- GM273
- Cadw record number
- 2893
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1636 map "Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ..." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1636 · Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ... (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1637 · The fourth table of England. Cornub. Devonia, Somerset etc. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1895 · Sheet 11. Ordnance Survey of England and Wales. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1906 · 249 Newport (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1913 · Sheet 102. Newport. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Summary description and reason for designation
The following provides a general description of the Scheduled Ancient Monument.
The monument comprises the remains of a small Roman practice camp, probably dating from the Flavian-Trajanic garrison of Wales, AD 74 - 117. The small fortlet was probably built as troop practice in construction techniques. The monument comprises the surviving upstanding earthworks, a square enclosure measuring roughly 18m in length within a bank spread to about 4m in thickness and up to 0.7m in height. There are slight traces of the external ditch; and there is an entrance in the S side, protected by a clavicula.
The monument is of national importance for its potential to enhance our knowledge of Roman military organisation. The monument forms an important element within the wider context of the Roman occupation of Wales and the structure itself may be expected to contain archaeological information in regard to chronology, building techniques and functional detail. The importance of the site is further enhanced by its chronological and geographical association with several other Roman sites in the vicinity (GM016 and GM164).
The area to be scheduled comprises the remains described and an area around them within which related evidence may be expected to survive.
Nearby in the register
- Capel GwladysChapelunder 1 mi
- Rectangular Earthworks 530m SSW of Heol-Ddu-UchafPractice Campunder 1 mi
- Pen-heol-AdamDomesticunder 1 mi
- Maen Cattwg (cup-marked stone)Cup Marked Stone1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.