The original Snårestad church was built in the 13th century. It was abandoned in the 1860s and partially demolished. The village decided to build a new church to the same site and it was completed in 1925. The baptismal font, dating from the 12th century, is located to the new church. There is an unknown hill structure near the church. It may has been an ancient fortification or burial ground. Archaeologists have found several remains from the hill.
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Built around AD 90 to entertain the legionaries stationed at the fort of Caerleon (Isca), the impressive amphitheatre was the Roman equivalent of today’s multiplex cinema. Wooden benches provided seating for up to 6,000 spectators, who would gather to watch bloodthirsty displays featuring gladiatorial combat and exotic wild animals.
Long after the Romans left, the amphitheatre took on a new life in Arthurian legend. Geoffrey of Monmouth, the somewhat imaginative 12th-century scholar, wrote in his History of the Kings of Britain that Arthur was crowned in Caerleon and that the ruined amphitheatre was actually the remains of King Arthur’s Round Table.
Today it is the most complete Roman amphitheatre in Britain.