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Caer Gybi

Holyhead, Anglesey

A Roman naval fort whose walls still surround a church.

Caer Gybi is a small Roman fort built at Holyhead in the late Roman period, probably to protect against Irish raiders and to shelter Roman ships. Three of its walls still stand, around St Cybi's church, which was built inside the fort in the 500s.

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When
About AD 300s
Where
53.3110, -4.6320
Group
Roman Britain

Visiting

Free, in the centre of Holyhead near the port.

Cover of The Ledger of Lost Britain by Cale Mills
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The Ledger of Lost Britain

The Romans arrived in AD 43. For most people that is where the history of Britain begins. But by the time the legions landed, people had already been living on these islands for thousands of years. They had hunted, farmed, mined flint, dragged stones across the country, raised a hill by hand, and buried their dead in great tombs. They left no written words. What they left was the ground itself. Every place in this book can be visited, or has been dug up, or is in a museum.

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