What did the Romans Ever Do For Us? Caerwent Roman Town (Venta Silurum)

[@PostcardAndAPint]

You’ve added another site to our list ‘to visit’ - what a cool site. Cheers 🍻

[@DeneF]

Thanks for an interesting video. I enjoyed it greatly.

[@thermotheo]

There's a large hill fort - Llanmelin Hillfort up on the hill just behind this place, some say a bastion of The Silures - one of the reasons for the Romans locating this town here.

[@cicero2]

We learn something new everyday! I was not even aware of a Roman fort at Caerwent. Thank you, guys, for an informative walkabout.

[@MostlyCastles]

You are most welcome, thank you for taking the time to leave a comment 😊

[@craigmoyle2924]

The silures built caerwent dont believe the lies

[@Laurendaw]

So interesting! Thank you for educating us!

[@MostlyCastles]

You are most welcome 🙂 Thank you for reaching out

[@lauraperkins6154]

I love here and it's great!

[@MostlyCastles]

It’s very cool to be able to walk around so much history, instead of there just being a sing building to see

[@jamesgrey1227]

Great video guys. Thought you would have entered the church to see the Paulinus stone. It celebrates Tiberius Claudius Paulinus. Commander of the 2nd Augustus legion, during the reign of Emperor Caracalla AD211-217.

[@MH-it8ht]

I stumbled upon this place last weekend, great little find. I too was surprised by it's size/significance considering the location. I wonder how much is still buried under the farmland and other buildings...

[@MostlyCastles]

I expect it's one of those places where they discover something fascinating every time the residents do a bit of gardening. "Just planting some roses and blow me if I didn't find another horde of Roman coins! It's getting beyond a joke because the cupboard under the stairs if full of the damn things now!"

[@DeneF]

4:42 Are you both sitting on the historical walls whilst speaking to the camera? Lol.

[@henryvagincourt4502]

Must put it on my list, quite amazing the wall has survived to its height after all this time.

[@MostlyCastles]

Yeah, it's nice to be able to walk around it for such a distance too. The height really gives you a better perspective of how it was built, I would love to be able to peek back in time and see it in it's hay day Jo

[@craigmoyle2924]

@@MostlyCastlesventa SILURIUM / silures / isrules /Israel the land of hisrule the silures are the isrules the real Israelites caerwent/ SILURIUM / rusilum G rusilum temple of Solomon Solomon = solo mon the only temple in mon monmouth check out the padlock shape at the temple the padlock = the inner sanctum where the ark of the covenant was kept temple of yahweh....built by romans lmao you cant seriously believe that deception

[@bikescastlesjapan2636]

great stuff. Love this ruin!

[@MostlyCastles]

You and me both! It was a really enjoyable day. Absolutely amazing place to explore, not least because there are people still living in it. It's a community with really vibrant feel to it.

[@bagginssupercat]

This is such an interesting place. I'd love to get there!

[@MostlyCastles]

You should! Just around the corner for you I'm sure. Scotland's very near Wales. Half an hour in the car. No? Well if you ever get down this neck of the would I would pop in. 😀

[@bagginssupercat]

@@MostlyCastles same if you were to ever explore castles this neck of the woods.

[@MostlyCastles]

Oh we intend to. It's definitely in the plan. Can't imagine it's going to happen soon though. Can't wait though. 😀

[@bagginssupercat]

@@MostlyCastles as and when, i would love to show you round my local castle! 😉

[@MostlyCastles]

That sounds excellent. We would love to. As you may have noticed, there are not enough castles in Wales for our liking. 🤪

[@johnmcneill1033]

Just to say this wasn’t a fort, rather a town (to save some confusion🙄)

[@MostlyCastles]

You had me worried I’d titled/ described it wrong there!

[@chriswilliams7480]

Did they really defeat the Silures? Or did they come to something like a peace accord? The records are somewhat ambiguous

[@MostlyCastles]

I have no idea about the Silures and their defeat or not. I would like to imagine that eventually the Silures just began to tolerate the presence of the Romans and that there were occasional scuffles between the two more akin to the friendly fighting that can be found outside a Wetherspoons on a Friday or Saturday night. I believe there was a lot of intermarriage between the two sides so perhaps the lines blurred until it was just a case of fighting your in-laws.

[@petrovonoccymro9063]

There is no evidence for a final defeat of the Silures. But Caerwent was built as a market town to house the Silures, who ran it as a civitas. Their royal line was also preserved right down to Arthrwys, King of Gwent in the 500s, believed to be the real King Arthur ( he is referred to as both names in the Llandaff Charters). Some also believe that the peace treaty between the Romans and the Silures was signed following thirty years of fighting at what became known as Cardiff, Welsh Caerdydd, the City of the Agreement.

[@markhuckercelticcrossbows7887]

sorry, 10 seconds in, cant watch it, if you cant pronounce caer, ask a local, hint, it rhymes with higher!

[@AlMondO93]

Silures is a latin name given to a non latin people. It's the same for all the Celtic tribes. Roman supremecy is alive and well.

[@MostlyCastles]

I did not know that. A quick google reveals this: "The Latin word Silures comes from the common Celtic root Silo- meaning seed of offspring. Therefore, the name Silures might mean offspring of kin. This could be a reference to the belief that the tribe all descended from one original ancestor, as some believe, or that their original tribal name was silo-riks - ‘rich-in-grain’."

[@AlMondO93]

@@MostlyCastles There is a rare moth called the Silurian Moth which is found in the hills above Abertillery in Gwent where the Billberry bushes grow. I had read a long time ago that this moth can also be found in the hills of Syria and Turkey but I can't find anything online to confirm this. If true it makes an interesting suggestion on the speculated 'Syrian' origins of the Celtic tribes of Briton.

[@MostlyCastles]

Apparently, the Romans thought they came from Spain. Tacitus described the Silures as being "swarthy" and probably originating in Spain, and modern DNA studies have found that the ancient British "celts" were largely the descendants of immigrants from the Iberian peninsula in the southwest corner of Europe. It's all fascinating stuff.

[@colinp2238]

Probably because the records we have of Celtic tribes was written by the Romans and n0-one else.

[@stevetaylor8298]

The people you call 'romans' are in fact Britons living in the roman way. So please call them Roman Britains.

[@craigmoyle2924]

SILURIUM/ G rusilum silures/isrule/israel land of hisrule yahweh Welsh = lost ten tribes of Israel/ isrule/ silure ark of the covenant in wales marco guy biblical decoded

[@SoMeKinDaApe]

Will you stop saying caer went its pronounced C went..thank you

[@MostlyCastles]

Absolutely. Now that we know we will definitely stop it. Sadly we can't go back in time to stop ourselves from doing it in this video. That would be a really handy trick. 😀