The earliest documented Saxon raids on Britain appear to have accelerated the construction of the Saxon Shore fort system from Brancaster in the north to Portus Adurni (Portchester) in the south. The raids demonstrated that the naval threat required a completely different defensive approach from the northern land frontier — fixed coastal fortresses with naval patrol capacity.
Aubrey generates in-depth historical research for any location in Britain — drawing on Domesday records, scheduled monuments, Victorian OS maps, geological data and archaeological archives to tell the full story of a place.
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