Llanmelin Wood hillfort near Caerwent is the best candidate for the Silurian tribal capital or major oppidum in the Gwent lowlands. Its excavation has shown extensive late Iron Age occupation. Following conquest, the Silures were settled in the new Roman civitas capital at Venta Silurum (Caerwent), one of the most complete Roman towns surviving in Britain today.
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