Introduction Bibliography Ashton’s road to Parys Mountain Margary RR67 (part) Canovium (Caerhun) to Segontium (Caernarfon) Margary RR68 Segontium to Aberglaslyn (on to Tomen y Mur) Possible Roman road Segontium to Dinorwig Capel Curig to Segontium possible ROMAN route Llys Dinorwig–Dolbadarn Castle-Pen y Pass to […]

In 1999 Edmund Waddelove self published a 300 page book on Roman Roads in North Wales. ISBN 0 950683 1 1. He was by then a retired surveyor for the Forestry Commission living in Ruthin in Clwyd and travelled extensively in pursuit of this […]

Routes in Snowdonia/Eryri where I live are determined by the mountainous terrain. Prior to the Industrial Revolution, the area was sparsely populated and consisted of subsistence livestock farming; there is virtually no arable land, and therefore no ploughing, so that archaeological remains from 2000 […]

Even in the 1860s the evidence for this section of Roman road was rapidly disappearing. I rely on Jenkins’ account to look for remaining evidence, most importantly three bridges of some antiquity, and have also identified a possible alignment in Waunfawr as an alternative […]

W ch 15 proposes a Roman route from Caer Llugwy (Bryn Gefeiliau) /Capel Curig/Llanberis/Segontium. I think it logical that there would be a road between the two forts, although I disagree with some of the details proposed by Waddelove. The earliest written record for […]

The first section of this proposed route is based on Jenkins 278 which refers to a “Roman bridle path from Dinorwic.” By this he would have meant not the present village, but Llys Dinorwig SH56256321 GAT2426, both (presumed) Roman and Mediaeval occupation. This is […]

1671 John Ogilby Brittania route 87 Welshpool to Caernarfon 1795 Evans J – Map of North Wales (ca 1795). Available online from National Library of Wales. 1802 Williams W Observations on the Snowdon mountains 1809 Edmund Hyde Hall, A Description of Caernarvonshire (1809-1811) ed […]

For a road that is listed in the Antonine Itinerary parts of this route remain elusive, despite the abundance of milestones associated with it. Most of it coming up from Canovium/Caerhun to Bwlch Ddeufaen is well established, and a milestone was found in 1954 […]

Yr Cymmrodor vol 33 p101, the report of the excavations of the Roman fort at Segontium in the 1920s, comments “In regard to the [discovery of considerable quantities of slate], Dr. Greenly observes: “Perhaps the most interesting circumstance in connection with the materials of Segontium is […]

The road Margary RR67 is attested as Iter XI of the Antonine Itinerary, which is the shortest entry in terms of the number of stages. Segontium is a well attested, excavated Roman fort and vicus, which has an afterlife in several Welsh legends. It […]

This blog contains research about Roman roads and other old routes in northern Gwynedd, where I now live. I first learnt to read an Ordnance Survey map when I was about 6. Although I didn’t know it at the time, I crossed Margary RR14 […]