Rome’s Saxon Shore

Coastal Defences of Roman Britain AD 250–500

Nic Fields author Donato Spedaliere illustrator

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Published:7th Dec '06

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Rome’s Saxon Shore cover

The 'Saxon Shore' forts are among the most impressive surviving monuments of Roman Britain, although much about them remains a mystery. In an impressive outlay of money, manpower and materials the frontier system stretched across the Wash-Solent and included the heavy fortification of the major harbours and estuaries of the east and south-east coast. This book is concerned with the fundamental questions concerning the forts. Who built the military monuments, when, and why? How did they operate, who garrisoned them, and for how long? This book explores the history of this frontier system the ruins of which define the British landscape to this day.

ISBN: 9781846030949

Dimensions: 248mm x 184mm x 7mm

Weight: 224g

64 pages