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The bulletin

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NX 252
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Sydney, N.S.W.: John Haynes and J.F. Archibald, 1880-1984
Issue
Vol. 69 No. 3568 (30 Jun 1948)
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The Bulletin  

“The Bulletin,” Vol. 69—No. 3568  

Wednesday, June 30, 1048  

Price 6d.  

Registered at the General Post Office, Sydney. N.S.W., Australia, for Transmission by Post as Newspaper.  

Seppelts  

two miles from Newport,  

Monmouthshire, was at one time  

Roman fortress and garrison known to  

them as Isca. Excavations have proved  

that the fortress was first established  

about A.D. 75 at the time of the final  

pacification of Wales by the Romans.  

Welsh chronicler, Gerald of Barry,  

described Caerleon in the year 1188 as  

“a handsome city built of masonry, with  

courses of bricks, by the Romans.”  

Many vestiges of its former splendour  

may yet be seen, immense palaces,  

formerly ornamented with gilded roofs,  

in imitation of Roman magnificence—  

“a town of prodigious size, remarkable  

hot baths, relics of temples and theatres,  

all enclosed within fine walls, parts of  

which remain standing.”  

Today it is not easy to visualise the  

extent and character of the ancient fort-  

ress, built by the second August Legion,  

consisting of between 5,000 and 6,000  

men, although fragments of the defensive  

walls enclosing an area of fifty acres can  

still be traced.  

Near these walls are the remains of the  

Amphitheatre, pictured here. It con-  

sists of an arena, oval in shape, 184 feet  

long and 136 feet broad, but all that  

remains is the earthen bank, which rose  

to maximum height of 28 feet above  

the arena floor, about which were ranged  

tiers of timbered seats. Access to the  

seats was gained by eight vaulted en-  

trances, two of which can be seen in the  

picture. Here, as in other Roman  

Amphitheatres, was the scene of gladia-  

torial combats, the baiting of animals and  

the torture of prisoners.  

Amongst the numerous relics' found  

during the excavations are Roman coins,  

pottery, inscriptions and statuette of  

Mercury, which are preserved in the  

Legionary Museum at Caerleon.  

CAERLEON, WALES, WHERE GLADIATORS STROVE IN ANCIENT DAYS  

CHATEAU  

PRODUCT OF THE  

ĵ  

HOUSE OF SEPPELT  

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