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Rare Roman Era Fort Found in Farmer’s Field in Pembrokeshire, Wales
For just the third time ever, an explorer has discovered the ruins of an ancient Roman fort in Wales. The broken and scattered remains of this nearly 2,000-year-old military structure were found hidden in an overgrown field in the seaside county of Pembrokeshire by Dr. Mark Merrony, a Roman scholar who teaches at Wolfson College, Oxford.
“It is a humongous fort, an incredible find of national importance,” Merrony told the Guardian, adding that he was “absolutely thrilled” about being responsible for such an amazing find.
The Oxford scholar believes the fort would have been constructed sometime between the first and third centuries AD, when the Roman Empire occupied the lands of the United Kingdom. It is the second Roman fort discovered in Pembrokeshire specifically, with the other having been excavated at Wiston near the municipality of Haverfordwest in 2013.
In addition to finding the remains of the fort, Merrony was also able to verify that a road running beside it was Roman in origin. He was able to do this because the road actually connects the fort in the field with the second one located at Wiston.
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