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A painting of a Roman masonry walled fort with projecting towers from the air, reused as a base by Norman soldiers arriving in dragon boats from the sea

28th September 1066

An invading army led by William Duke of Normandy make the 780 year old #Roman fort of ANDERITVM (Pevensey) #Sussex a base prior to the Battle of Hastings

A vivid recreation © Alan Sorrell 1970 reproduced in 1976 as a Department of the Environment postcard

#RomanFortThursday

Part of the *make Roman Forts more bendy* bill passed by the senate in AD 275

True 🤣

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its true that Pevensey would've once abutted the shoreline - a shoreline that has now retreated about a mile away
...but the same is true of Portchester, Richmond & others - and they are still square

#RomanFortThursday

Some fantastic photos of Pevensey #Roman fort (especially the harbour gate arch) in this thread by @forestcollectiv.bsky.social for #Romanfortthursday 🤩👇👇

It's a very small world 🤣

So unutterably depressing

IKR 😍😍

At least they did preserve and identify the Roman bits that survived. Always felt that the *reconstruction* of Cardiff fort is *interesting* 🤔

You're very welcome 😊

That's a particularly good one. Have a copy on a shelf (somewhere!)

They really were (and are) and his postcards were the highlight of any heritage gift shop!

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Definitely the original Roman facing stones. Don't always survive as removed for use elsewhere. Lovely 😍

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I believe these are the original facing stones? not 100% confident to identify them
certainly a lot closer to the original look compared to Chichesters Walls
@durotrigesdig.bsky.social - have a vague recollection of you posting on Pevensey, are these original do we know?

#RomanFortThursday

*Great minds think alike* this #Romanfortthursday

(Or is that *fools rarely differ* - i can never remember 🤣)

#RomanFortThursday & this week got a chance to get back to Pevensey for the first time in about 5 years, its been super-ages!

think we need a thread, i have some questions

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A painting of a Roman masonry walled fort with projecting towers from the air, reused as a base by Norman soldiers arriving in dragon boats from the sea

28th September 1066

An invading army led by William Duke of Normandy make the 780 year old #Roman fort of ANDERITVM (Pevensey) #Sussex a base prior to the Battle of Hastings

A vivid recreation © Alan Sorrell 1970 reproduced in 1976 as a Department of the Environment postcard

#RomanFortThursday

Hadn't really noticed the guy in the tower before 🤣🤣

Romans after Rome!

An open area of grassy heath with a sign in the foreground

#RomanFortThursday A remote posting in Ordovician territory - the upland Roman fort at Tomen y mur in Eryri/Snowdonia is named after the great medieval summit motte ('tomen' or mound) which sits over the Roman fort ('mur' - wall)

The brilliant signs were unfortunately taken down in 2022😔

📷My own

The remains of a 4th century centurion’s quarters or officer’s mess (schola) at Vindolanda Roman Fort in Northumberland.
📸 My own. #RomanFortThursday #RomanBritain #Vindolanda #Northumberland

This is Cedric. He'a an Iron Age warrior and he lives at the Museum of the Iron Age in Andover. I've made a Cedric paper dress up doll and you cut out & dress him for free with entry to the museum during the Easter hols..!

They missed the last boat home

It really is 😍

Painting of two cloak wearing men with horses approaching a timber gate, with observation tower above, being opened by two shield carrying men whilst two men, a boy and a dog watch from the ramparts above

The late 5th c AD SW gate of Cadbury Castle hillfort #Somerset

Based on Leslie Alcock's 1968 excavation

Splendidly recreated with elevated platform in a painting © Peter Dennis for *British Forts in the Age of Arthur* by Angus Konstam @ospreypublishing.bsky.social 2008 🤩

#HillfortsWednesday

Hill fort painting by Anna Dillon

Work in progress. Oil on board. Can you guess the hill fort? This will be on show at my studio in early May for Oxfordshire Artweeks.

View from a train window of green waterlogged fields and the southern end of the Malvern Hills including the British Camp hill fort on Herefordshire Beacon. A copy of Anne Brontë’s The Tenant of Wildfell Hall is on the train table.

Great Malvern railway station platform with working Victorian gas lamp in the foreground and colourful decorative cast iron pillars in the background.

Just did one of my favourite train journeys again, beside and through the Malvern Hills from Hereford to Great Malvern. Anne Brontë kept me good company.

Black and white drawing of a large wooden gate with a happy Iron Age man standing to one side

And here's an excellent recreation of the Iron Age SW gate of South Cadbury hillfort © John Swogger from the 2020 article:

Hillfort gate-mechanisms by Pope, Mason, Hamilton, Rule and Swogger @royalarchinst.bsky.social

which is OPEN ACCESS 👇

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

#HillfortsWednesday

Thanks for the reminder 😊👍