The Usk valley between Burrium (Usk) and Gobannium (Abergavenny) was a zone of constant low-intensity conflict through the 50s AD. Roman patrols moving between forts were ambushed; foragers venturing beyond the immediate perimeter risked destruction. Tacitus captures this grinding attrition as the defining character of the Silurian war — the most protracted resistance in Roman British history.
Roman patrol detachments of 20-100 men versus Silurian ambush parties of similar or larger size
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