- 100m 110yds
Leucarum Fort, at Loughor.
Period VII to VIII
defences Period I to VI
defences Pre-1988
bridge Bath-house site
RIVER LOUGHOR St Michael's Church...
-
derives from the name of the
Roman fort of
Leucarum. The town
includes the site of the
Roman fort of
Leucarum,
occupied by
Roman Auxiliary soldiers from...
- Llanrhidian.
Roman occupation brought new settlement. The
Romans built Leucarum, a
rectangular or
trapezoidal fort at the
mouth of the
River Loughor, in...
-
Bowes Castle,
County Durham AI, ND, RC, T
Leodis or
Loidis Leeds other Leucarum Loughor,
Swansea AI
Letocetum or
Etoceto Wall,
Staffordshire AI Lindinis...
- for
errors in the
medieval transcriptions,
places Nidum 14
miles east of
Leucarum (modern day Loughor), and 27
miles west of
Bomio (an
unknown fort, possibly...
- in
viscera terrae absorbetur.
Rupes quae polo est
ambitum circiter 33
leucarum habet. The
ocean breaking through by 19 p****ages
between these isles forms...
- main
Roman settlements were
located around the
forts at
Loughor Castle (
Leucarum) and
Neath (Nidum),
which lined the east–west
route from
Cardiff to Carmarthen...
-
wicker fence defences, and
reused the
remains of the
former Roman fort of
Leucarum. Over the next two centuries, the
castle was
involved in many conflicts...
- Dumnoniorum, Isca Augusta, Conder****, Concangis, Corinium, Galava, Glannoventa,
Leucarum, Lindum, Mamucium, Manduessedum, Mediobogdum, Navio, Morbium, Olicana,...
- of
Warwick from 1106, it is
built into the
corner of the
Roman fort of
Leucarum. Over 250
turbulent years it was
progressively rebuilt in stone. Only one...
