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
