CAERLEON LEGIONARY FORTRESS, RAMPART & BARRACKS BUILDING: AREA OFF WHITE HART LANE

Site Details

NPRN
275988
Map Reference
ST39SW
Grid Reference
ST34039040
Unitary (Local) Authority
Newport
Old County
Monmouthshire
Community
Caerleon
Type of Site
LEGIONARY FORTRESS
Broad Class
Defence;Domestic
Period
Roman

Site Description

Part of Caerleon Legionary fortress (Nprn95647).

A section across the south-eastern rampart, intervallum & part of a centurion's quarters of one of the dextral barracks in the praetentura, examined in 1938 (Nash Williams 1939): the southern angle of the fortress, south-east of this site, was explored in 1909 (Bosanquet & King 1963).

Sources: Nash Williams 1938 (AC 94), 107-8;
Bosanquet & King 1963 (Monmouth Ant. I.3), 49-57.

J.Wiles 02.02.05