Buckland Monachorum, Devon. OSGB – SX 48725 66783. Grade I Listed Building. Barn – Grade I Listed Building. National Trust. The site is situated within an area of...
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Blog – Carvoran Roman Fort: Magnis: Magnae Carvetiorum: Banna?
Carvoran, Northumberland. Scheduled Monument. Monument Listing – 1010991. OSGB – NY 66590 65785. Vindolanda Trust. Roman Army Museum. Mentioned in both the Ravenna Cosmography and the Notitia Dignitatum,...
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Blog – Stanwix: Stane Wegges: Petriana: Uxelodum: Uxelludamo: Uxelodunum: Vxelodunum: Vxelodum.
Stanwix, Carlisle, Cumbria. Scheduled Monument. Monument Numbers – 28484: 1017948. Stanwix is one of the original primary forts of Hadrian’s Wall and constructed of timber prior to...
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Blog – Drumburgh Roman Fort: Drum Burgh: Drumbou: Coggabata: Congavata: Concavata: Congabata: Gabrosentum: Gubrosuntum.
Drumburgh, Cumbria. OSGB - NY 25913 60046. Scheduled Monument. Historic England List Number 1014699. The names listed above are all recorded in the past as being associated...
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Blog – Birdoswald: Burgh Oswald: Banna: Amboglanna: Camboglanna.
Birdoswald, Cumbria. OSGB - NY 61452 66263. Scheduled Monument. Historic England List Number – 1010994. There is some archaeological evidence that the site may have previously been an...
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Blog – Segedunum: Wallsend
Wallsend, Tyne-and-Wear, Northumberland. OSGB - NZ 30004 66067, NZ 30037 65992. The site is located at the eastern end of Hadrian’s Wall and guards the River Tyne....
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Blog – Alfred’s Castle; Alfred’s Camp; Ashbury; Ashbury Castle; Ashberry; Ashberry Castle; Ashberry Camp.
Ashbury Estate, Ashbury, Oxfordshire (Originally situated in Berkshire). OSGB – SU 2773 8223. Scheduled Monument. Monument Number 225540. National Trust Property. Iron Age univallate hill fort, Roman...
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Roslin Castle; Rosslyn Castle
Roslin, Midlothian. NT 27440 62701. Scheduled Ancient Monument. Category A Listed Building. The castle sits on the northern bank of the River Esk on Roslin Glen cliffs....
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Pendragon Castle: Castle of Mallerstang: Mallerstang Castle
PRIVATE PROPERTY Mallerstang Dale, Cumbria OSGB – NY 781025 Grade I Listed Building Fortified Tower. Pele Tower. Situated on a spur overlooking the River Eden to its...
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Oldbury Hill: Oldbury Camp: Oldbury Hillfort
Oldbury, Ightam, Kent. OSGB – TQ582562 Scheduled Monument. Monument Number 409479 A multivallate, Iron Age hillfort/camp, roughly diamond shaped. Contour hillfort covering approximately 50 hectares. It is the...
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Ramsey Abbey; Booth’s Hill; Ramsey the Rich; Ramsey the Golden.
Ramsey, Cambridgeshire. OSGB – TL 2918 8503 Scheduled Ancient Monument Monument Number 871276 Gatehouse Grade I Listed Building. Sitting on what was once an island in...
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Bar Hill Fort/Barr Hill/LACONICUM
Antonine Wall Twechar, East Dunbartonshire NS707759 The site sits 30 meters south of the Antonine Wall and is recorded as being the highest Roman fort in Scotland....
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Gaer Penrhos/Caer Penrhos/Castell Penrhos/Castell Cadwaladr/Castle of Llanrhystud/Llan Rhystud.
Llanrhystud, Dyfed. Scheduled Ancient Monument. Monument Number CD094. PRIVATE PROPERTY. The site overlooks the village and has views across the Ystwyth Valley and mountains as well as...
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Lodge Hill Camp: Lodge Farm: Lodge Wood
Caerleon, Newport. Scheduled Monument. Iron Age Hillfort. The hillfort is situated to the north of Caerleon and sits on a narrow ridge overlooking the River Usk, with...
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Lanchester Roman Fort: Longovicium Roman Fort: Longchestre
Lanchester, Durham. OSGB - NZ 159 469 Scheduled Monument. PRIVATE PROPERTY. Lanchester its between the forts of Vindomora (Ebchester) and Vinovia (Binchester) 32 km south of Hadrian’s...
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Irton Hall, Cumbria
“Thou standest a monument of strength sublime, A giant, laughing at the threats of time” (Jefferson 1842). Irton-with-Santon, Eskdale, Cumbria. Grade II Listed Building. The...
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Fort Amherst, Chatham, Kent
Fort Amherst is part of the Brompton Lines, a defensive line of forts and batteries protecting Chatham Naval Dockyard, situated on the River Medway, from a landward attack....
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Hemingford Grey Moated Manor House
Grade 1 Listed Building. PRIVATE PROPERTY The cherry trees were coming into blossom and full of birds too busy and independent to hang about waiting for crumbs....
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Deal Castle
https://youtu.be/46PZQbk3yhI TR 35 SE 6 Scheduled Monument The castle is designed in a double clover-leaf design. It’s main role was to defended part of the Kent...
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Kenilworth Castle, Warwickshire
https://youtu.be/iEk5gwGVFf8 Located within the Honour of Stoneleigh, Warwickshire, the castle is a Grade I Listed Building and a Scheduled Monument. If only they could speak……..this pile of ancient...
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