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Saxon Shore Fort at Pevensey: Roman Gate
Pevensey (Roman Anderitum) was listed in the Notitia
Dignitatum, an administrative document for AD 395-430, as one of the
Saxon Shore Forts and naval bases used by the Roman military on the southeast
coast of Britain, to ward off increasing Germanic invasions in the 4th-5th
centuries. Constructed in about AD 340 and covering ten acres on a peninsula
near the mouth of the River Ashburn, the Roman castle at Pevensey was the
only one of the nine Saxon
Shore Forts which was newly built for the purpose. The main entrance
at the southwest, approached by land, had two round-fronted bastions guarding
a rectangular gatehouse. Pevensey Castle was later rebuilt as a
Norman Fortress.
[Fig.1: Main Roman gate at Pevensey Castle (photo: Athena
Review).]
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