PEN-Y-COEDCAE CAMP

Temporary Marching Camp

Pen-y-Coedcae, Mid Glamorgan

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NGRef: ST0687 OSMap: LR170 Type: Marching Camp
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This large temporary marching camp lies some 6½ miles west of the fort at Caerphilly in Mid-Glamorgan. The camp has been attributed to the campaigns of Sextus Julius Frontinus sometime during the period AD73 to 78, along with other large camps at Blaen-cwm-Bach and Twyn-y-Briddallt.

N.G.REF	DIMENSIONS	AREA	DESCRIPTION
ST059878	1,580 x 1,030 ft (481 x 314 m)	37½ acres (15 ha)	...

See: The Roman Frontier in Wales by V.E. Nash-Williams (Cardiff 1969) p.124;
RCAHMW Glamorgan Volume 1 Part 2: The Iron Age and Roman Occupation (1976) #740 p.99 & fig.56;
Britannia xxvii (1996) pp.393/4.

Temporary Marching Camp

Pen-y-Coedcae, Mid Glamorgan

See: The Roman Frontier in Wales by V.E. Nash-Williams (Cardiff 1969) p.124;
RCAHMW Glamorgan Volume 1 Part 2: The Iron Age and Roman Occupation (1976) #740 p.99 & fig.56;
Britannia xxvii (1996) pp.393/4.

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Temporary Marching Camp

Pen-y-Coedcae, Mid Glamorgan

See: The Roman Frontier in Wales by V.E. Nash-Williams (Cardiff 1969) p.124; RCAHMW Glamorgan Volume 1 Part 2: The Iron Age and Roman Occupation (1976) #740 p.99 & fig.56; Britannia xxvii (1996) pp.393/4.

Click here for a map of Pen-y-Coedcae from StreetMap.co.uk

Click here for a map of Pen-y-Coedcae from Old-Maps.co.uk

This page was last modified:  July 2004

See: The Roman Frontier in Wales by V.E. Nash-Williams (Cardiff 1969) p.124;
RCAHMW Glamorgan Volume 1 Part 2: The Iron Age and Roman Occupation (1976) #740 p.99 & fig.56;
Britannia xxvii (1996) pp.393/4.

This page was last modified: