Another shore fort at Reedham TG4101?
J.R.L. Allen, E.J. Rose and M.G. Fulford:
Re-use of Roman Stone in the Reedham Area of East Norfolk: Intimations of a
Possible 'Lost' Roman Fort, BRITANNIA XXXIV (2003) 129-141
http://www.romansociety.org/webbrit03.htm#bk9
Tom Ikins
http://www.RomanMap.com
The Roman Map of Britain
Tom Ikins wrote:
>I don't have a copy of CDEPN at hand, but Caister-on-sea seems a viable
candidate. It was not excavated until 1972, >and not until the 2001 OS Roman
Britain map was a fort finally posted there (previous editions 1928, 1956,
and 1994 >showed only a Roman town). Given the often long waits between
excavation and publication, it is possible that Rivet & >Smith (1979) were
never aware of a fort at Caister.
Exactly my point. If this is right, there is a need to correct CDEPN.
For latest on this, see A. Pearson, The Roman shore forts (Tempus 2002),
page 15.
Keith
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