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Roman camps UK - is there a database or list?
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Steve Kaye post=317538 Wrote:camps never located at cross-roads (I'm still thinking about this one)
Interesting - what are your thoughts?

I wondered a while ago whether the shortage of marching camps in southern England might be due to many of these sites later becoming towns, with the remains overlaying and obscuring the earlier traces. Does that seem plausible?

There is more than an element in truth to this Nathan as down here in darkest Kent many of the forts became permanent garrisons which then turned into towns. However, having said that Dover castle stands on the site of the original Roman fort, as possibly does Rochester Castle. Richborough and Reculver Roman forts still survive as does the one at Garlinge near Margate that practically no one knows about (called by locals 'Dent de Lion' castle). There is the Roman fort/port remains at Lympne in Kent plus still visible a section of the old Roman sea wall defences. There are a whole load of Roman marching fort remains around the Folkestone area, several appear to have been built on Iron Age hill top forts that the Romans took over. I believe the original Rye and Hastings forts were built over the Roman ones, as is the case in Canterbury.
Adrian Coombs-Hoar
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Roman camps UK - is there a database or list? - by Steve Kaye - 07-27-2012, 02:36 PM
Re: Roman camps UK - is there a database or list? - by Steve Kaye - 07-27-2012, 04:15 PM
Re: Roman camps UK - is there a database or list? - by Steve Kaye - 07-27-2012, 09:28 PM
Re: Roman camps UK - is there a database or list? - by Steve Kaye - 07-27-2012, 10:45 PM
Re: Roman camps UK - is there a database or list? - by Steve Kaye - 07-31-2012, 09:13 PM
Re: Roman camps UK - is there a database or list? - by Steve Kaye - 07-31-2012, 09:34 PM
Re: Roman camps UK - is there a database or list? - by Steve Kaye - 08-02-2012, 12:46 PM
Re: Roman camps UK - is there a database or list? - by Steve Kaye - 08-02-2012, 05:36 PM
Re: Roman camps UK - is there a database or list? - by ValentinianVictrix - 08-02-2012, 06:39 PM
Re: Roman camps UK - is there a database or list? - by Steve Kaye - 08-02-2012, 11:11 PM
Re: Roman camps UK - is there a database or list? - by Steve Kaye - 08-03-2012, 12:50 PM
Re: Roman camps UK - is there a database or list? - by Steve Kaye - 08-03-2012, 02:24 PM
Re: Roman camps UK - is there a database or list? - by Steve Kaye - 08-05-2012, 03:24 PM
Re: Roman camps UK - is there a database or list? - by Steve Kaye - 08-05-2012, 03:26 PM
Re: Roman camps UK - is there a database or list? - by Steve Kaye - 08-06-2012, 01:44 PM
Re: Roman camps UK - is there a database or list? - by Steve Kaye - 08-07-2012, 01:09 PM
Re: Roman camps UK - is there a database or list? - by Steve Kaye - 08-07-2012, 01:20 PM
Re: Roman camps UK - is there a database or list? - by Steve Kaye - 08-07-2012, 01:30 PM
Re: Roman camps UK - is there a database or list? - by Steve Kaye - 08-07-2012, 05:11 PM

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