Minor Romano-British Settlement
Minor Seaport

Fingringhoe Wick, Essex

NGRef: TM0519 OSMap: LR168 Type: Minor Settlement, River Port.
Roads
NW (5) to CAMVLODVNVM (Colchester, Essex)

This small river port on the Colne estuary served the legionary fortress and later Roman colony at Camulodunum (Colchester, Essex). On the evidence of Roman military equipment and coinage recovered from gravel workings on the Fingringhoe headlands, it is thought that this port was operational very early during the Roman occupation of the Islands, and enabled direct communication with the seaports near the mouth of the Rhenus on the other side of the Oceanus Britannicus (The English Channel), where it is known that contemporary storage depots and other Roman naval installations existed.

See: The Roman Invasion of Britain by Graham Webster (Batsford, London, 1993).

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