National Roman Legion Museum

The National Roman Legion Museum (Welsh: Amgueddfa Lleng Rufeinig Cymru) is one of the National Museums of Wales. It is located in Caerleon in the city of Newport, south-east Wales [1].

Background and History

Roman Wales was the farthest point west that the Roman Empire in Roman Britain extended to, and as a defence point the fortress at Caerleon, built in 75 AD, was one of only three permanent Roman Legionary fortresses in Roman Britain. It was occupied and operational for just over 200 years.

The National Roman Legion Museum lies inside what remains of the fortress, and contains many artefacts from the period of Isca Augusta of Legio II Augusta from Roman currency to uniforms.^[1].

A short walk from the National Roman Legion Museum is the remains of Isca Augusta:

• Part of the military bath house in the Roman Baths Museum
• The most complete Roman amphitheatre in Britain
• Sections of the fortess walls
• The only remains of a Roman legionary barracks on view anywhere in Europe at Prysg Field

See: main articles Isca Augusta and Caerleon.

See also

• Newport Museum
• Venta Silurum

References

External links

• Official website – National Roman Legion Museum
• Six pages of artifacts held within the museum and relating to Roman Caerleon at Gathering the Jewels
• Museum Wales info on the National Roman Legionary Museum