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The Roman Fort at Great Chesterford, Essex

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 July 2016

Warwick Rodwell
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Britannia , Volume 3 , November 1972 , pp. 290 - 293
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Copyright © Warwick Rodwell 1972. Exclusive Licence to Publish: The Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies

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References

1 The Archaeology of the Cambridge Region, 174.

2 Published in 1958 by Dr. Webster, G., Arch. Journ. cxv, 80, where he doubted its military origin. A closely similar mouthpiece was found in 1971 on the site of the marching camp at Wickford, Essex.Google Scholar

3 Summary account in VCH Essex, iii, 72 f.

4 University of Cambridge, Committee for Aerial Photography negative numbers: YF 61; YF 62; YX 59; YX 61; ADI 2; ADI 6; AGA 87; AOI 44. No. ADI 2 is reproduced here as Plate XXIII a by permission of Dr. St. Joseph.

5 Since this note was prepared, the area in question has been trial-trenched by the MII Archaeological Committee (Central Section), with completely negative results.

6 VCH, iii, 77.

7 See Frere, S. S., Britannia (London 1967), 70 f. I am grateful to Professor Frere for discussion on this and other points, and for commenting on the draft of this note.Google Scholar

8 Some support may be given to this theory by the discovery in recent years of a military base below the western part of the colonia at Colchester. The area concerned does not seem large enough to accommodate a fort for the whole of legion XX, but would be more suited to one of half-legionary size.

9 See Webster, G., ‘The Military Situations in Britain, A.D. 43-71’, Britannia, i, 193.Google Scholar

10 I am grateful to Major Brinson for the opportunity to examine this material in advance of his own publication of the site, and for discussion thereon.