South Wales Day 2

We started the day with Caerphilly castle,  it's suppose to be second largest castle in the UK only smaller than Windsor.  But honestly it must be the grounds cause it

 

didn't   look that big.  It doe have a lake versus a mote around most of it.

Our next stop was Coch Castle this is a newer castle built in the 1870's.  the cool thing with this place was the architect used 13th century techniques but its still in good shape so you could see the vibrant colors they would have once used on their walls.  This stuff makes a bright wall seem dull.  Not only did they use color they had patterns or pictures painted.  Cool place.

 

Next we went to some roman amphitheater dating from around 70AD.  Supposedly it could seat 6000, which seems like a lot but I guess they used bleachers like we do today so that can cram a lot of people in.  The amphitheater was only part of the roman stuff around here.  Guess there was a large roman fort setup so they have escalated a Roman baths.  They had great detail about the baths, one funny thing that was pointed out was some tiles with a food sandal print, another with a dog paw print and another with a cat print.  Guess even back then wet plaster would get prints in it.

Another neat thing in a museum next to the baths was carves gems they found in the baths.  Just like today things would get lost down the drains.  All these things were found in 1979 when the excavated the drains, they are definitely deep I can see how it may have been missed for 1900 years.