Wilcrick

Wilcrick () is a hamlet within the administrative boundary of the city of Newport, South Wales, just to the west of Magor and approximately southeast of Newport city centre. It is within the historic county of Monmouthshire. Etymology The name translates from the Welsh as a "bare hill" or "mound". Archaeology Willcrick is located on the B4245 road to the northwest of Magor. To the southeast of the village is Wilcrick Hill which has a hillfort on its summit, of which only the earthworks remain. Archaeological evidence of a small Iron Age settlement found preserved under peat at Barland's Farm suggests that the occupiers may have used the Caldicot and Wentloog Levels to pasture their cattle when conditions permitted, and may have moved into the hillfort when the Levels were too wet to be useable. Nearby, a nearly complete 3rd century Romano-British oak boat was found beside a buried stone and timber quay in 1993, during the building of a distribution depot at the nearby Europark. This suggests that much higher water levels prevailed on the Levels at the time.