During his seven-year reign, Carausius converted the triumphal monument at Richborough — the great marble-clad arch marking the gateway to Roman Britain — into a heavily fortified Saxon Shore fort. The massive walls (still partly standing) enclosed the earlier monument. Richborough became the symbolic and military keystone of the Carausian Britannic Empire. Its fortification is part of the broader Saxon Shore system he developed.
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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