Up above the public footpath are the remains of a Roman fort. I haven't been up there for years, but yesterday there were no sheep in the field, and the gate at the top was open, so I went to have a look.
It's on the official lists as Clyro Roman Fort, and it's on Boatside Farm, overlooking the River Wye. Photos always seem to flatten out earthworks like this, but I think I got an angle where you can see the sudden rise in the ground where the rampart is, with the track cutting through it. On either side, in the next fields, there's nothing visible left at all.
This is where the Silures tribe almost wiped out the XX Valeria Legion, killing the prefect and eight centurions as well as many of the rank and file.
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Don't forget the Roman Donkey Millstone found at Boatside in 2002ish :) Now at St Fagans
https://museum.wales/collections/online/object/d548592e-dd67-313e-859e-d8d4d42b982b/Roman-stone-quern/?field0=string&value0=Clyro&field1=with_images&value1=on&index=0
I'll also add the Dirk found at Dolbedwen, near Rhosgoch in 1835 for good measure
https://museum.wales/collections/online/object/fcca3fa5-3c09-3454-bdaf-715d734e9e94/Middle-Bronze-Age-bronze-dirk/?field0=string&value0=Dirk&field1=with_images&value1=on&index=1
Happy New Year
A better link for the Millstone
https://museum.wales/collections/online/object/f7e861f0-3bdf-38a4-a10e-e76aa7e0d2cd/Roman-stone-quern/?field0=string&value0=Clyro&field1=with_images&value1=on&field2=string&value2=clyro&index=1
Brilliant! I didn't know about the quernstone! Or the dirk!
I couldn't find the dirk on the Museum Wales website, but the donkey mill quern is quite an impressive piece of kit. Not the sort of thing you'd expect to find at a temporary camp!
The Dirk isn't Roman, however you should find it if you select and copy all of the link and paste into your browser, Otherwise search 'Middle Bronze Age bronze dirk 53.471' should get you close/ Happy New Year!
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