Caerwent

Craig dug at several other sites over the next several years, including a spectacular Roman town at Caerwent in southeastern Wales.

The Goddess and the Bull MICHAEL BALTER 2005

Silurum, now Caerwent, near Chepstow; Corinium, now Cirencester, capital of the Dobuni; Isca Dumnoniorum, now Exeter, the most westerly of these towns;

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" Various

He was slain at Caerwent for the love of a lady of those parts.

French Mediaeval Romances from the Lays of Marie de France Marie de France

Silchester and Caerwent did not stand alone in Britain.

Ancient Town-Planning 1889

Even our little towns of Silchester and Caerwent in Roman

Ancient Town-Planning 1889

[111] Accounts of the Caerwent Excavations, 1899-1910, will be found in _Archaeologia_, vols. lvii-lxii.

Ancient Town-Planning 1889

The unit of 240 Roman feet (p. 79) does not appear at Caerwent.

Ancient Town-Planning 1889

[76] This failure in symmetry recurs in one or two other Roman towns as probably at Timgad (p. 109) and at Cologne (E. and W. gates), at Silchester and Caerwent, but it may sometimes be the result of alteration.

Ancient Town-Planning 1889

But Caerwent never expanded; it remained not much more than 45 acres within the walls.

Ancient Town-Planning 1889

Both these towns may be ascribed to the later years of the first century and to the same civilizing process as Silchester and Caerwent.

Ancient Town-Planning 1889