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Engraving of Caerwent Roman town, from Coxe's 'Historical Tour of Monmouthshire', 1801
Coxe describes his visit to Caerwent Roman town as follows:
'In little more than a mile, I passed through the neat village of Crick, from which place the road continues in a strait direction to Caerwent, and was undoubtedly the site of a Roman way ... A gentle rise leads to the eastern gate of Caerwent, the 'Venta Silurum' of the Romans, now reduced to an inconsiderable village.'




