OSMap: LR122
Type: Roman Burg
W (22) to LINDVM
E (20) to Skegness
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NGRef: TF2569 OSMap: LR122 Type: Roman Burg |
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Ridge trackway: NNW (23) to Caistor W (22) to LINDVM E (20) to Skegness | |
"Horncastle, in Lincolnshire, may have been a Saxon Shore fort. Stukeley in the early eighteenth century describes its walls as "three or four yards high, and four yards thick. ... It is a perfect parallelogram ... at the corners have been square towers, as they report ; the gates were in the middle of three sides, and I suppose a postern" in the fourth. His Plan shows the area as about 31 acres (Stukeley, It. curiosum, p.30). In point of fact the towers were probably round, and the plan is not quite a parallelogram." (Collingwood, p.49)
The classification of the site as a Saxon Shore Fort would be better described as a Fortified Civil Settlement or Burg, which were also prevalent at the time.
