🏛️ Blestium-Viroconium
Roman auxiliary fort ruins in the Welsh Marches
📌 Fast Facts
- Located near Monmouth, Wales, on the border region of Roman Britain
- Established approximately 74–75 CE as a timber auxiliary fort
- Occupied intermittently through the 3rd century CE
- Now an open-air archaeological site managed by Cadw
Blestium-Viroconium was a Roman auxiliary fort built to control the strategically important Wye Valley and monitor the neighbouring ...