Castrum Branodunum

view of the site of Branodunum]] The fort, built in the 230s, became later part of the eleven forts along the south and east coasts of England, known as the Saxon Shore fortification system built during the 3rd millennium AD. It was built to guard the Wash approaches and is of a typical rectangular castrum layout. According to the 4th-century document Notitia Dignitatum, the fort was garrisoned by the Equites Dalmatae Brandodunenses ("Dalmatian cavalry of Bran[d]odunum"), although a tile found on the site stamped Cohors I Aquitanorum suggests that its original garrison was the "First cohort from Aquitania". There is possible evidence (burials and grave goods) of later Anglo-Saxon use of the…