How the Romans Conquered the Sacred Island of Anglesey

In the year AD 43 the Romans invaded Britain. Landing on the Kent coast, over the next decade the roman army, moved throughout the land, taking much of the south of England and Wales. Next, they turned their attention to subjugating the Druids of Anglesey.
This is the story of the Roman conquest of Anglesey.
Selected Sources
Barry Cunliffe, The Druids
Jan Morris, The Matter of Wales
Tacitus, Annals & Histories
V.E. Nash-Williams, The Roman Frontier In Wales
Attributions
Pre Roman Wales…
By author of source image, plus my additions (myself) - sub area of Image:Uk topo en.jpg plus my additionsData on peoples and their location is from John Edward Lloyd's 1912 History of Wales (2 vols.), CC BY-SA 3.0, commons.wikime...
Roman Britain Map…
By my work - Based on Frere's Britannia and Jones' & Mattingly's Atlas of Roman Britain - sources are cited in the image legendThe topographical map is from a sub-region of File:Uk topo en.jpg, with the copyright notice {{Bild-GFDL-GMT|migration=relicense}} and original date of 7 July 2006, copy made in 2008, with the annotations removed by myself., CC BY-SA 3.0, commons.wikime...
Suetonius Paulinus…
By Ad Meskens - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, commons.wikime...
Llyn Cerrig Bach
By Eric Jones, CC BY-SA 2.0, commons.wikime...
Iron Plaque
By Wolfgang Sauber - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, commons.wikime...
Llyn Cerrig Bach Chain- Copyright, National Museum of Wales
museum.wales/c...
Map of Boudican Revolt
By Amitchell125 - Own work, based on archive.org/de... and upload.wikimed..., CC BY-SA 4.0, commons.wikime...
Boudica Revolt
By W Parkinson - archive.org/de..., CC BY-SA 4.0, commons.wikime...
Agricola
By Ad Meskens - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, commons.wikime...
Segontium Commander’s House
By Wolfgang Sauber - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, commons.wikime...
Cemlyn Cropmark
coflein.gov.uk...
Nerva Statue
By I, Sailko, CC BY-SA 3.0, commons.wikime...
Hadrian Statue
By Carole Raddato from FRANKFURT, Germany - Statue of Hadrian as Pontifex Maximus, 117-138 AD, from Rome, Palazzo Nuovo, Capitoline Museums, CC BY-SA 2.0, commons.wikime...
Hadrian Coins
isaw.nyu.edu/e...

[@SleepingGiant77]

So glad to discover this channel. There's not a ton about Welsh history out there, and after visiting the country 20 years ago I was absolutely enchanted. I've even been to Anglesey! Although I spent a lot more time in Caernarvon. Hopefully your channel grows well, there's certainly a niche out there for it.

[@bonzey1171]

Nice one, I hope you make more vids on Cymru, not a lot out there unfortunately, especially on druids or iron age stuff, or even neolithic stuff, which is always facinating. Keep em coming please

[@Bart9349]

What a wonderful video. I shared it with others at our website after the recent discovery of Roman bracelets on Anglesey.

[@garyholyhead]

There's a 3 sided Roman fort smack in the middle of Holyhead

[@PALADEEN1323]

answers for AH homework start at about 1:50

[@llywnogmawr5853]

Not much has changed on Anglesey..

[@petrovonoccymro9063]

No evidence that the Silures ever were defeated. They fought the Romans for thirty years, twenty of them even after their leader, Caradoc was betrayed by the Brigantes. The Romans certainly built a large town, Caerwent, for them to run as a civitas and to keep their royal line. Cardiff, Caerdydd, is so called because it means the City of the Agreement. It was where the Romans and Silures AGREED to end their warfare.

[@ailenepace8262]

What is the matter with you people? Can't you determine a lie when you hear it? There was not one ounce of truth in his fancy little story. Tacitus never said any of those things and there is no such history given by anyone. Mona was the first and original Abby on the island and it was destroyed by the Norman invaders in AD 853, but the island was called Mona and Anglesey in the chronicles.

[@SteelCathedrals]

Tacitus - Annals 14.29,30,31. 👍

[@MajiSylvamain]

I am compelled to disagree, there is no archeological evidence the Romans actually invaded Briton, landing at Kent would make even less sense as there is no national inlet to land their ships, however there is evidence the Romans were invited to Briton by Chiefs or petty Kings of southern tribes that had been trading with people around the Mediterranean and needed help dealing with their neighbours in the North, you could say the South Celtic tribes Romanised themselves... Obviously the rest of the Celtic tribes didn't like this intrusion and put up a fight... Also the Romans did sacrifice to their gods the way described, no profe the Celts did the same... But really could the Romans judge... And I argue that the Roman legions had no opportunity to take on the Druids then march all the way back to Eastern Briton to deal with the Celt uprising... I find any Roman account of Britons history, exaggerated and flimsy at best, I would not rely on it to be factual and I much prefer the archeological evidence... For instance Fishbone was built by a Romanised Briton, not a Roman... However I enjoyed your videos.😺🐈👍🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧

[@lozpopo]

Always found it quite rich of the Romans to accuse other cultures of human sacrifice as if they didnt do things more horrific themselves. Just goes to show that history really is written by the victors.