Burgh Castle, Norfolk.....

The best preserved monument in East Anglia and one of the most impressive Roman buildings to survive anywhere in Britain.  The site is cared for by the Norfolk Archaeological Trust with support from English Heritage.  The Burgh Castle was called Gariannonum by the Romans and has been the site of a Norman castle and perhaps an early Christian monastery as well.  This fort, built around 300 AD, was one of a series of at least nine Roman coastal forts in Eastern and Southern England known as The Forts of The Saxon Shore. After the Romans left Britain the abandoned fort was re-occupied in the Anglo-Saxon period, and may have been the site of a monastery founded by Saint Fursey, a missionary from Ireland involved in converting East Anglia to Christianity.  In the years after the Norman Conquest a castle of earth and timber was built in one corner of the fort. (From the information boards at Burgh Castle).

The parish of Burgh Castle was part of Suffolk until 1974.

 

Large parts of the fort's walls stand to almost their original height.......

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The site of the East gate......

 

 

 

 

 

In Roman times the fort was strategically positioned on the southern edge of the estuary which today is greatly reduced in size........

 

 

I hope the Romans wore socks with their sandals while on these furrin' shores as the wind dew bloo when it's a daggly owld day!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

.... not exactly in the Perpendicular style.....

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

..... a couple of relics....

 

 

 

I wonder what part of this sign is difficult to understand for several people who were there this afternoon ........

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

What a lovely afternoon at Burgh Castle, it was roit noice!