Segontium (Caernarfon) was the principal Roman fort of north-west Wales. By the late fourth century it was increasingly isolated and subject to Irish and Pictish raids. In 383 AD the usurper Magnus Maximus (celebrated in Welsh legend as Macsen Wledig) stripped Segontium and other Welsh forts of their garrisons for his campaign to seize the imperial throne. Welsh legend says he settled his veterans in Brittany — their place-name legacy survives there. The withdrawal of the garrison effectively ended Roman military presence in north-west Wales.
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