146 WREXIIAM TO MOLD, 



Caergwrle, like Holt, was once a flourifhing town, 

 but it is dwindled into an infignificant village. — Its 

 parifli church is about a mile diftant. 



There is good reafon for fuppofnig that Caergwrle 

 was a Roman flation, probably an outpofl to Deva. 

 Camden difcovered here an hypocauft, hewn out of 

 the folid rock, fix yards and a quarter long, five 

 yards broad, and fomewhat more than half a yard 

 in height. On fome of the tiles were infcribed the 

 letters legio xx., which feem to pohit out the 

 founders. This is further corroborated by the name 

 of the place. Caer gawr lie, tbe camp of the great 

 legion; Gawa* lie being the name by which the Bri- 

 tons diilinguiflied the twentieth legion *. 



The cajik flood on the fummit of a high rock. 

 Its prefent remains are very inconfiderable ; they 

 are, however, fulficient to indicate that it could never 

 have been a fortrefs of any great importance f. 



The founder has not been afcertained ; but from 

 its confLruCdon it has been evidently of Britiih origin. 

 — In the reign of Edward I. we find it poffelfed by 

 the Englifh crown, for that monarch bellowed it, 

 along with the lordfliip of Denbigh, on David, the 

 brother to prince Llewelyn. Whilfl in his hands, 



* GIbfon's Camden, 688. Pennant, i. 432. 



■\ «' The town of Hope, now decayed, was fumtlme burgefid 

 and privileged, and ys caulled in Walfch Cairgorles. Ther 

 ftond yet grete waulles of a caflle fet on an hylle, ivher be diggid 

 ^ood mill flonea of a blue giit." Lcland's Iliii. v. 38- 



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