How the Romans Conquered the Sacred Island of Anglesey
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 Published On Mar 25, 2023

In the year AD 43 the Romans invaded Britain. Landing on the Kent coast, over the next decade the roman army, moved throughout the land, taking much of the south of England and Wales. Next, they turned their attention to subjugating the Druids of Anglesey.
This is the story of the Roman conquest of Anglesey.

Selected Sources

Barry Cunliffe, The Druids
Jan Morris, The Matter of Wales
Tacitus, Annals & Histories
V.E. Nash-Williams, The Roman Frontier In Wales

Attributions
Pre Roman Wales…
By author of source image, plus my additions (myself) - sub area of Image:Uk topo en.jpg plus my additionsData on peoples and their location is from John Edward Lloyd's 1912 History of Wales (2 vols.), CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index...
Roman Britain Map…
By my work - Based on Frere's Britannia and Jones' & Mattingly's Atlas of Roman Britain — sources are cited in the image legendThe topographical map is from a sub-region of File:Uk topo en.jpg, with the copyright notice {{Bild-GFDL-GMT|migration=relicense}} and original date of 7 July 2006, copy made in 2008, with the annotations removed by myself., CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index...
Suetonius Paulinus…
By Ad Meskens - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index...
Llyn Cerrig Bach
By Eric Jones, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index...
Iron Plaque
By Wolfgang Sauber - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index...
Llyn Cerrig Bach Chain- Copyright, National Museum of Wales
https://museum.wales/collections/onli...
Map of Boudican Revolt
By Amitchell125 - Own work, based on https://archive.org/details/newstuden... and https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi..., CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index...
Boudica Revolt
By W Parkinson - https://archive.org/details/bericbrit..., CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index...
Agricola
By Ad Meskens - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index...
Segontium Commander’s House
By Wolfgang Sauber - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index...
Cemlyn Cropmark
https://coflein.gov.uk/media/260/87/6...
Nerva Statue
By I, Sailko, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index...
Hadrian Statue
By Carole Raddato from FRANKFURT, Germany - Statue of Hadrian as Pontifex Maximus, 117-138 AD, from Rome, Palazzo Nuovo, Capitoline Museums, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index...
Hadrian Coins
https://isaw.nyu.edu/exhibitions/bert...

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