The Roman fort southwest of Canon Frome Court in Herefordshire is a marching or campaign fort situated in the Frome Valley, likely dating to the mid-1st century AD military advance into the Welsh borderlands under governors such as Ostorius Scapula or Frontinus. Its scale suggests an auxiliary-sized garrison post, positioned to control movement along the river corridor between the Severn and the Welsh uplands.
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The site forms part of the network of temporary and semi-permanent installations supporting the Roman conquest of the Silures and Ordovices, complementing the better-known forts at Kenchester (Magnis) and Stretton Grandison further west. Its outworks indicate a deliberately defended posting rather than a single-night marching camp, marking a strategic node in the Herefordshire campaign landscape.
The fort is known principally from aerial photography and earthwork/cropmark survey, which has revealed the playing-card outline of the defences together with associated outworks; no substantial published excavation has taken place, and dating relies on morphological comparison with similar Claudio-Neronian sites in the Welsh Marches.
The Roman fort southwest of Canon Frome Court in Herefordshire is a marching or campaign fort situated in the Frome Valley, likely dating to the mid-1st century AD military advance into the Welsh borderlands under governors such as Ostorius Scapula or Frontinus. It is recorded in the Pleiades gazetteer of ancient places as a fort site from the Roman period in Britain.
Roman fort and outworks 550yds (500m) SW of Canon Frome Court is classified as a Roman fort — a military site in the Pleiades ancient world gazetteer. Roman Britain's archaeology encompasses thousands of sites ranging from legionary fortresses and marching camps to villas, temples and towns.
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