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Tomen y Mur

Near Trawsfynydd, Gwynedd

A remote Roman fort with an amphitheatre, later topped by a Norman mound.

Tomen y Mur was a Roman fort high on the moors of Snowdonia, with a bath house, parade ground and Britain's most remote amphitheatre, perhaps used for training. Centuries later the Normans built a castle mound inside it.

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When
About AD 78
Where
52.9400, -3.9200
Group
Roman Britain

Visiting

Free, reached by a minor road off the A470.

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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