Caerleon (Google Map) Caerleon - City of the Legion. Plan of Caerleon Roman fortress.
Marble inscription, probably from the south-west gate at Caerleon. Reconstruction of the south-west gate, Caerleon. The Roman fortress at Caerleon & its environs: bibliography. ISCA SILVRVM. Caerleon, Gwent Castra Legionis / Isca SilurumFortress of the Legion / Riverside Settlement of the Silures The Roman name of the Caerleon fortress occurs in three separate itinera within the late-second century list of imperial road-routes known as the Antonine Itinerary, serving as a terminus on two of these routes.
Iter XII: "the route from Muridunum to Viroconium", Caerleon appears as Iscae the home of Legio Secunda Augusta, some twenty-seven miles from Bomium (nr. Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan) and nine miles from Burrium (Usk, Gwent). Caerleon roman fortress map5. Caerleon roman baths 3D. The Second Legion Augusta LEG II AVG The Second Augustan Legion. The Legion was named after the emperor Augustus.
The Capricorn, his birthsign, was one of their symbols. Left: the standard of the legion. Many roof tiles were stamped with the mark of the legion. Four Legions took part in the invasion of Britain in AD43. They were: