Ariconium

A Roman road station in the lands of Ergyng south of the Welsh Marches. It was mainly used for metallurgy, forging and iron working, as it was by the pre-Roman Britons. It was continually occupied throughout the Roman era, and the scale of industrial activity increased over the period, until it was deserted by the Romans in the late 4th century. Ariconium was refitted as a defensible weapons forge for King Arthur and his Round Table Knights in the late 5th and early 6th centuries A.D.