5100 x 3400 px | 43,2 x 28,8 cm | 17 x 11,3 inches | 300dpi
Data acquisizione:
2 maggio 2008
Ubicazione:
Burgh Castle, near Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, England, Europe.
Altre informazioni:
The site of Gariannonum is at Burgh Castle, situated to the west of Great Yarmouth, in Norfolk, and on the east bank of the River Waveney.It is one of several Roman forts constructed to hold cavalry as a defence against Saxon raids up the estuaries and rivers of the south and east coasts of southern Britain (the Saxon Shore). The fort was built in the late third or early fourth centuries, and now overlooks a large expanse of grazing marshes to the west, which once formed a large inland estuary. Three of the four sides of the fort survive and stand probably to their full height. The walls are built of flint and mortar, and the wall faces are made with knapped flint interspersed with layers of red Roman tile. There are rounded bastions at the corners and at intervals along the walls. The gate is in the middle of the east wall. The west wall does not survive, having fallen into what was once an estuary. The gap in the south wall was made in Norman times, when a motte and bailey castle was built here. The area of the motte at the south can still be seen and its surrounding ditch, now largely refilled, passed through the wall at this point and is also visible as the external hollow at the south end. There was also a mid-Saxon monastery within the walls, but no traces of this are now visible.
