XIV. Some Account of Roman Antiquities discovered at Caerbun, in Carnarvonshire, and in other Parts of that County. By Samuel Lysons, Esq. F.R.S. Director

Abstract

All writers on the subject of the Roman Stations in this island, agree in opinion that Caerhun, a small village on the river Conway, about five miles distant from the present town of that name, is the site of the ancient Conovium; a station which occurs in the eleventh iter of Antonine's Itinerary, and in the first of that of Richard of Cirencester. Camden supposes the name of Caerhun to be a corruption of Caer hên, the old city, but says that the common tradition of the neighbourhood was, that it received its name from Rhun ap Maelgwn Gwynedh, who died about the year 586. It is certain that in very ancient writings it is called Caerhun, whatever may be the etymology of its name.