The buried remains of the largest Roman villa in Wales have been detected and mapped using ground-penetrating radar by a team of archaeologists from Swansea University.  Lying hidden in the sub-soil of Margam Park the villa is thought to date from early in the Roman occupation of Britain during the 1st millennium.  No excavation has taken place to date but given the extent of the villa complex there are ambitions to discover more.

We have a number of books for sale related to the Roman occupation of Wales.

  Reports on Roman forts are available:  * Y Gaer: Brecon Roman Fort 

. . . and the large complex near Holyhead - * Caernarvon - Segontium. 

The Romans were the first to exploit Welsh gold deposits - * The Dolaucothi Gold Mines: Geology and Mining History. 

Among the treasures in the National Museum is the remarkable Abergavenny leopard cup featured on this book’s cover - * Discovered in Time: Treasures from Early Wales. 

Margam Park itself has many other treasures including the UK’s largest orangery built in 1790 and restored in the 1970’s - * Margam Orangery