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Margam before the Normans Margam appears to have been an important religious area long before the Normans arrived in 1147. On Margam mountains there are Bronze Age memorial Cairns. The Romans arrived in Wales in the 1st century A.D and fought bitter battles against the Silurian tribesmen on Margam Mountain. As the Romans became more powerful, the Celts began to adopt Christianity, which was the official roman religion, they also adopted many roman cultures. When the Romans left in 410 A.D the Celts continued to follow Christianity albeit in a Celtic fashion. All things roman were considered to be status symbols and signs of authority, consequently local chieftains re-used roman stones as Christian memorials. An excellent example of this is a roman milestone, that was originally erected (about 300 A.D) to honour the Emperor Maximus and re-used in the 6th century as a memorial to a local leader called cantus. There are also squared...

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