🏛️ Blestium-Viroconium
Roman fort and settlement ruins in Herefordshire
📌 Fast Facts
- Located near Ross-on-Wye, Herefordshire, England
- Occupied from approximately 70 CE to the early 5th century CE
- Named Blestium by Romans; local Welsh name Lydney sometimes conflated in historical sources
- Multi-period military and civilian settlement on the River Wye
Blestium was a Roman auxiliary fort and vicus (civilian settlement) established in the late 1st century CE as ...