The site of a Roman signal station initially identified via aerial photographs in the 1940s, Thornham Roman Signal Station is located on Beacon Hill overlooking Brancaster Bay.
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The site of a Roman signal station initially identified via aerial photographs in the 1940s, Thornham Roman Signal Station is located on Beacon Hill overlooking Brancaster Bay. It is recorded in the Pleiades gazetteer of ancient places as a watch tower site from the Roman period in Britain.
Thornham Roman Signal Station is classified as a Roman watch tower — 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.
Several Roman sites lie within a short distance, including Branodunum (5.8 km), Roman villa NE of Eaton (6.6 km), Romano-British villa 400m west of White House (8.2 km). Aubrey Research maps over 2,200 Roman sites across Britain, drawn from the Pleiades ancient world gazetteer.
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