Ostorius dies unexpectedly in 52, supposedly "worn…

Ostorius dies unexpectedly in 52, supposedly "worn out with care" as Tacitus puts it, leaving Rome with a growing problem on its British frontiers.

It has been claimed that his final resting place is in Clawdd Coch in the Vale of Glamorgan, southeast Wales.

Silurian raids continue, defeating a legion led by Gaius Manlius Valens, before Aulus Didius Gallus arrives as replacement governor.

The complete pacification of the area will be achieved only twenty-five years later by Sextus Julius Frontinus in a series of campaigns ending about 78 CE.

Tacitus wrote of the Silures: non atrocitate, non clementia mutabatur — "changed neither by cruelty nor by clemency".