The Saxon Shore (Exeter Studies in History, 25), 1989, réimp. 2006, 178 p., ill. n.b. -

The Forts of the Saxon Shore form the best preserved and most impressive group of Roman remains in Britain. Of the ten forts which originally gridled the south-eastern corner of the island from Brancaster on the Wash to Portschester on Portsmouth Harbour, nine survive in varying states of preservation. But what was this area like in the Roman period ? Who was 'the Count of the Saxon Shore "? When where the forts built and what were they for ? What was happening on the other side of the Channel and what happened to this area and its coastal defences after the Romans left ? This volume explores these and other problems, and presents a summary of the latest state of knowedge of each of the Saxon Shore forts, with plans and photographs.