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The Saxon Shore was a military command of the Late Roman Empire, consisting of a series of fortifications on both sides of the English Channel. It was established in the late 3rd century and was led b
Burgh Castle in Norfolk, seen from the air.
Roman masonry, with its distinctive bands of red-brick Roman tiles, can be seen in the outer walls of the Saxon Shore fort of Anderitum, which was later re-fortified as Pevensey Castle in East Sussex. The walls appear to be still standing to their original height.
The nine British Saxon Shore forts in the Notitia Dignitatum. Bodleian Library, Oxford.
Burgh Castle is the site of one of nine Roman Saxon Shore forts constructed in England around the 3rd century AD, to hold troops as a defence against Saxon raids up the rivers of the east and south co
Saxon Shore
…by the Equites Dalmatae Brandodunenses, although evidence exists suggesting that its original garrison was the cohors I Aquitanorum. Gariannonum (Burgh Castle, Norfolk). Established between 260 and the mid-270s to guard the River Yare (Gariannus Fluvius), it was garrisoned by the Equites Stablesiani Gariannoneses…
A bastion on the eastern wall
The well-preserved southern walls, with bastion
Close-up of the flint and brick-tile construction of the perimeter wall