Qualla: Caerwent https://qualla.com/caerwent en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:14 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Caerwent https://qualla.com/caerwent Caerwent: Introduction https://qualla.com/caerwent/ You drive into Caerwent off the A48 between Newport and Chepstow, expecting an ordinary Monmouthshire village, and discover that the village is sitting inside the perimeter of a Roman town. The walls are still there, in places rising five metres tall - great masonry curves of grey limestone running along the edges of paddocks and gardens. Modern houses have grown up across half the old marketplace. Cars park along streets that follow the lines of Roman insulae. About 1,200 people live here. They share their parish with the foundations of a fourth-century temple, the outline of a forum, and the most impressive set of urban walls Roman Britain has bequeathed.

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]]> Wed, 20 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/n/j/caerwent-wp/gcnj-caerwent-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Caerwent: Venta Silurum https://qualla.com/caerwent/ The Romans founded the town in AD 75 as a market town - venta in their Latin - for the defeated Silures, the Brythonic tribe of south-east Wales. The Silures had fought Rome harder than most. The historian Tacitus, writing of their campaigns against the legions, describes them as...

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]]> Wed, 20 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/n/j/caerwent-wp/gcnj-caerwent-venta-silurum.mp3 0:06 2 full Caerwent: Walls and a mosaic of fish https://qualla.com/caerwent/ Large sections of the Roman town walls remain in place. The historian John Newman called them '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.' What makes Caerw...

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]]> Wed, 20 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/n/j/caerwent-wp/gcnj-caerwent-walls-and-a-mosaic-of-fish.mp3 0:06 3 full Caerwent: A town for ordinary Romans https://qualla.com/caerwent/ Most of the houses excavated at Caerwent were unsophisticated. Few had mosaic floors. Few had the underfloor heating system called hypocaust. The town was large, but it was not luxurious. Archaeologists read this as evidence that Caerwent was a working market for ordinary provinc...

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]]> Wed, 20 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/n/j/caerwent-wp/gcnj-caerwent-a-town-for-ordinary-romans.mp3 0:06 4 full Caerwent: After the Romans https://qualla.com/caerwent/ When Roman administration collapsed in Britain in the early fifth century, Caerwent did not. The town remained an important centre through the early medieval period - the place where the road from Gloucester to Caerleon crossed the north-south road from Shrewsbury, via Monmouth a...

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]]> Wed, 20 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/n/j/caerwent-wp/gcnj-caerwent-after-the-romans.mp3 0:06 5 full Caerwent: The propellant factory next door https://qualla.com/caerwent/ Modern Caerwent has lived an oddly military second life. During the Second World War, a Royal Navy Propellant Factory was established immediately to the north of the village, on the other side of the A48. Between 1967 and 1993, the site was used as a storage station for the Royal...

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