Times Roman

Cadw, Amgueddfa Cymru and Newport Museum run by Newport County Council, have invited us to tender for a Roman Gateway project in South-East Wales.

The Roman’s lived in Wales for almost 400 years, building roads, towns, buildings, setting up trade with Iron Age ‘Welsh’ tribes and traveling around the country leaving lots of evidence of their lives and communities.

The requirement of the tender is to bring all these threads of Roman life together into one cohesive story that allows visitors to understand the wider context of Roman life in Britain. There are Roman Baths, an amphitheatre, army barracks, and museum alone in Caerleon, Newport Museum has a gallery dedicated to Roman life and artefacts of civilians living in Wales, including beautiful floor mosaics, while Caerwent a town of similar size to Caerleon has original stone town walls and lots of archaeological digs and ruins visible around the village. All three sites tell Roman stories, but connecting them, making them relevant and making the public interested is the challenge.

Six to eight public consultation events are to be planned over the Summer to make gauge reactions to the plans put forward.