Caer Lêb Romano-British Farm

PricingFreeFree for all visitors

Free entry for everyone

Entry

Free for everyone

Pricing details

Free entry for everyone; no membership card is needed.

ParkingParking not known

The Trust's page does not say how parking is charged.

Parking details

Cadw says to park in the lay-by on the road outside the monument. It holds three or four cars in front of the spring-loaded gate, whose signpost is partly hidden by bushes; nothing is published about charges, so the status is recorded as unknown. A mown grass path leads about 110 m from the gate to the enclosure, whose ditches hold deep water; grazing animals may be about.

Driving pin: Cadw's own what3words point at the entrance gate, 2 m from the gate and 17 m from the lay-by, 116 m north-north-east of its marker on the earthwork; Castell Bryngwyn's lay-by pin is 1 km away and Bodowyr's 1.3 km. By road: three quarters of a mile west-north-west of Brynsiencyn, off the A4080. By rail: Llanfairpwll, 8 km. National Cycle Network route 8 passes 800 m away.

About

Caer Lêb Romano-British Farm, Fferm Frythonig-Rufeinig Caer Lêb, is a rectangular enclosure of double banks and ditches on low-lying marshland west of Brynsiencyn, with a complex and sometimes murky history. Its wet setting led some to take it for a medieval moated homestead, and a groat of Henry V or VI turned up here, but excavations in 1866 uncovered the stone footings of a rectangular building and a roundhouse nearly 6 metres across with a paved floor and hearth, with samian pottery, a brooch and a coin of the 3rd-century emperor Postumus. These finds were left by later occupants: similar sites across Wales suggest Caer Lêb began as an Iron Age settlement and was lived in through the Roman period. The banks ring a space about 66 by 44 metres with a broad marshy ditch between them. Visitors find a neat, well-kept site with a mown path from a spring-loaded gate, though the signpost hides in the bushes and the banks are low, so read up first.

Open in daylightFrom Cadw's published times

Open any reasonable time in daylight

Opening times may change at short notice.

Open all year during reasonable daylight hours; no admission charge. Cadw may close monuments at short notice in extreme weather.

Terrain level 3, moderate: a mown grass path and low banks that may be slippery or uneven, with deep water in the marshy ditches. No facilities. Drones are not permitted.

Dogs: Cadw: 'Dogs welcome'; the site is on Cadw's dog-friendly days out list for north-west Wales, which asks for dogs under control and on a short lead at all times. An open-air site with deep-water ditches.

Photo: Aerial view of Caer Lêb's rectangular double banks and ditch among fields and scrub near Brynsiencyn. CwmCiprwth, CC BY-SA 4.0. Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Caer_L%C3%AAb_Roman_Fortlet.jpg. Licence: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0. Resized and cropped for display; derivatives retain the source licence.