Castrum Segontium
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Segontium () is a Roman fort on the outskirts of Caernarfon in Gwynedd, North Wales.
Key facts
- Castrum.image
- Segontium Roman Fort - geograph.org.uk - 1287434.jpg
- Castrum.name
- Segontium
- Castrum.founded
- CE 77 or 78
- Castrum.abandoned
- CE 4th century
- Castrum.robust_struct_material
- Stone
- Castrum.robust_struct_built
- 2nd century <!--
- Castrum.robust_struct_abandoned
- 5th century-->
- Castrum.weak_struct_material
- Wood and earth
- Castrum.weak_struct_built
- 1st century <!--
- Castrum.weak_struct_abandoned
- 2nd century-->
- Castrum.province
- Britannia
- Castrum.map
- Wales Gwynedd
- Castrum.map_caption
- Location in Gwynedd
- Castrum.location_town
- Caernarfon
- Castrum.location_county
- Gwynedd
- Castrum.location_country
- Wales
- Castrum.ref:UK:OSNG
- SH485624
- Castrum.controlled_by
- Cadw
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Located in
- Caernarfon
- Owned by
- Cadw
- Operator
- Cadw
- Official website
- www.nationaltrust.org.uk/segontium
- Image
- Segontium.JPG
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- culture
- Ancient Rome
- director of archaeological fieldwork
- Mortimer Wheeler
- Commons category
- Segontium
- historic county
- Caernarfonshire
- maintained by
- Cadw
- heritage designation
- scheduled monument
- P12749
- Capolat
- native label
- Segontium
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Encyclopedic overview
10 sectionsContents
- Etymology
- History
- Roman
- Medieval
- Present day
- Mythology and fiction
- Gallery
- See also
- References
- External links
Segontium () is a Roman fort on the outskirts of Caernarfon in Gwynedd, North Wales.
==Etymology== The fort probably takes its name either directly from the Afon Seiont or from a pre-existing British settlement itself named for the river. The name is a Latinised form of the Brythonic language *seg-ontio, which may be translated as "strong place".
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Castrum Segontium” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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