They built a small Roman fort at Pennal ( Cefn Caer ) four miles west of Machynlleth, and are reputed to have had two look-out posts above the town at Bryn-y-gog and Wylfa.

Approximately one kilometre beyond Pont Cyfyng, towards the south east end of Capel Curig, on the farm of Bryn Gefeiliau there are the remains of a Roman fort ( c90-100AD ) and named Caer Llugwy by its excavators

Excavations at the Roman villa at Caer Mead have revealed that this area was occupied during Roman times for around 350 years ; its bathrooms and the mosaic pavements date from the mid 2nd century AD.

* The Battle of Chester ( Old Welsh: Guaith Caer Legion ; Welsh: Brwydr Caer ) which separated the ( West ) Welsh from the ' North ' Welsh of Cumbria-marking the formation of Wales.

Edward's architect, James of St. George, may well have modelled the castle on the walls of Constantinople, possibly being aware of the alternative Welsh name Caer Gystennin ; in addition, Edward was a supporter of the Crusader cause.

Gwydion disguises the boy as a shoemaker and returns to Caer Arianrhod ; while Arianrhod is being fitted, she sees the boy killing a wren with a single stone and remarks that the fair-haired one (" lleu ") has a skillful hand (" llaw gyffes ").

People have lived in the Stretton Gap ( or Dale ) for thousands of years ; an Iron Age hillfort on Caer Caradoc overlooks the town.

# Dunkin thought that it was a concatenation of two Celtic words-Cor or Cau with Gafael, enclosure hold ; or Coed and Caer or Gaer, camp in a wood, " Cogger ", the person owning this camp may have had a hall, therefore Coggershall.

The fortress was given up around AD 75 ; shortly afterwards work started to convert it to the civilian settlement which became the civitas capital of the Dumnonii tribe, known to the British as Caer Uisc.

Two of his plays -- La adversa fortuna de Don Bernardo de Cabrera and El ejemplo mayor de la desdicha -- are respectively the sources of Rotrou's Don Bernardo de la Cabrère and Belisaire ; Moreto's Caer para levantar is simply a recast of Mira's El Esclavo del demonio, a celebrated drama which clearly influenced Calderón when composing La Devoción de la cruz ; and there is manifestly a close relation between Mira's La Rueda de la fortuna on the one hand and Corneille's Héraclius and Calderón's En esta vida todo es verdad y todo es mentira.

Learning from Gwystyl that the Huntsmen and Cauldron-Born of Annuvin are active outside that realm, Gwydion turns from the quest for Dyrnwyn to planning for battle, presumably first at Caer Dathyl.

Caernarvon is a Welsh word, based on Caer Yr Arfon-" Fort ( Caer ) on the River ( Arfon ).

Carlisle ( or, from Cumbric: Caer Luel ) is the county town of Cumbria, and the major settlement of the wider City of Carlisle in North West England.

:" When I return from Caer Seon

:" When I return from Caer Seon

His sources are not given but the Cambro-Briton in 1822 also recorded that Maximus, the last Roman Emperor of Britain, a man who for a time divided the Roman Empire with Theodosius I, on withdrawing Roman legions from Britain granted civic status and Celtic names to a number of pacified Romano British settlements, including Southampton, Chichester, Old Sarum near Salisbury, Carmarthen ( Caerfyrddin ) and Haverfordwest ( Caer Alun ).

An early Welsh language ecclesiastical list from St David's gives another form of the name Caerceri where Caer is the Welsh for fortress and Ceri is cognate with the other forms of the name.

Although Shaftesbury's recorded history dates from Anglo-Saxon times, it may have been the Celtic Caer Palladur.

It was also one of the two legions that defeated Caratacus at the Battle of Caer Caradoc, after which, from the AD 50s, it was encamped at Camulodunum, with a few units at Kingsholm in Gloucester and a garrison at Wroxeter.

Geoffrey explained the name " London " as deriving from " Caer Lud ", or Lud's Fortress.

In the Second Chronicles it is the one place immune from the Sunbane, as it is protected by the Forestal Caer Caveral.

The hill Caer Caradoc adjacent to the Long Mynd and from the same time is more volcanic in origin, and is thought to be the remnants of the great mountain chain.

The prefix is the Welsh ' Caer ' meaning fort and it has been suggested that Swswen was an ancient queen from Roman times.

Cader Sedat, the island where the renegade mage Metran works his dark magic in The Wandering Fire, is the analogue of Caer Sidi from the poem Preiddeu Annwfn, a poem that is, in the trilogy, ascribed to Taliesin, one of the names used by Flidais.

Cramond is derived from the compound Caer Amon, meaning ' fort on the river ', referring to the Roman fort that lay on the River Almond.

Travelling from the Breakwater Country Park, other sites along the way are the North Stack Fog Signal station, Caer y Tŵr, Holyhead Mountain and Tŷ Mawr Hut Circles.

Exeter, known as “ Caer Uisc ”, may have been central to the kingdom but some historians and antiquaries have speculated that the Kings of Dumnonia may have been itinerant with no fixed capital and moved their court from place to place.

Taran and his companion Gurgi return from wandering to Caer Dallben, in haste after getting news from Kaw the crow that Princess Eilonwy has returned from the Isle of Mona.

Evidently Arawn himself came from Annuvin to the verge of Caer Dallben in the guise of Taran, with no more than the powers of Taran, in order to snare them.

culminating in a claim to have been at " Caer Vevenir " when the Lord of Britain did battle.

Exeter, known to the British as Caer Uisc, was later the site of an important Saxon minster, but was still partially inhabited by Dumnonian Britons up until the 10th century when Athelstan expelled them.

It is said that, when Londinium ( also known then as Caer Lundein ) was captured by the invading Anglo-Saxons during the late 6th century, all the British ( Celtic ) inhabitants were forced to live on the east bank of the Walbrook while the Saxons would reside on the west.

It later appears in Welsh when it or nearby Lichfield are called " Caer Lwytgoed ", modern Welsh llwyd — grey, coed — wood.

Although Darryl Francis could not find a hill when he visited there, Caer Mote is located 2 km south-southwest of Torpenhow village.

Nennius says it was known as Caer Guricon ( modern Welsh: Caer / Din Gwrygon ) and archaeological evidence suggests that this town continued in use after the Roman withdrawal and was only finally abandoned in about 520 when it had become indefensible as the last vestiges of Romano-British central government broke down.

An early alternative name was Caer Seiont.

It is called Caer Aber Sei ( o ) n ( t ) (" the fort on the estuary of the river Seiont ") in the medieval Welsh tale Breuddwyd Macsen (" Macsen's Dream "), and was also known as Caer Gystennin (" The Castle of Constantin ").

This was later Latinised into Luguvalium and later still was derived to Caer-luel ( Caer meaning fort in Brythonic ).

Aengus was told he could marry Caer if he could identify her as a swan.

Caer Wydion, the castle of Gwydion, was the traditional Welsh name for the Milky Way.

His chief fortress was said to have been Caer Wyddno (), located somewhere to the north-west of modern-day Aberystwyth.

Phillips claimed that the pre-Norman name of Haverfordwest was Caer Alun, so named by the Emperor Maximus ( Macsim Gwledig ).

Phillips claims that the name actually given to the town was Caer Elen, in honour of his wife ( the name later changing to Caer Alun ).

The area seems to have been settled by the Ordovices, an Iron Age tribe of people in the last millennium BC, and was a stronghold of the Celtic chieftain Caractacus ( Caer Caradoc is said to be named after him ).

By 864, the area around Durnovaria / Caer Durnac was dominated by the newly established Saxons, who came to refer to themselves as Dorsaetas (' People of the Dor ' - Durnovaria ).

The fort was abandoned as the Roman Empire declined in the 4th century AD, but was probably a royal residence of King Oswald of Northumbria, records show that his son Oswin was born within ' Caer Urfa ,' by which name the fort is thought to be known after the Romans left.

The Horse Park, on the west side of the grounds, was loaned to the Fair by Mrs. Boulton, who lived in the Grange and it was bounded on the north by the Caer Howell Pleasure Grounds ( in a way a forerunner of the midway ).