Caerwent is a village and
community in
Monmouthshire, Wales. It is located about five miles west of
Chepstow and eleven miles east of
Newport, and was originally founded by the
Romans as the
market town of
Venta Silurum, an important settlement of the
Brythonic Silures tribe. The modern village is built around the Roman ruins, which are some of the best-preserved in Europe. It remained prominent through the Roman era and
Early Middle Ages as the site of a road crossing between several important civic centres.
