In the 1st century AD, Roman soldiers of the 20th Legion “Valeria Victrix” set up a pottery works near to what is now the Welsh town of Holt. For the next two hundred years, potter-soldiers would produce bricks, tiles and domestic pottery from local clay, to be transported down the river Dee to their fortress at Deva Victrix (modern Chester). Now Wrexham museum tells thier story with thier new temporary exhibition “Hidden Holt: The Story of a Roman Site”

The first explorations and digs at the site took place in the 1900 and 1910s, uncovering a large scale pottery manufacuring centre, with numerous workshops, kills and a drying rooms, along with hundreds of artefacts, many of them produced at the site.