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Burgh Castle is in fact a Roman
Fort built in the late third or early fourth century, as
part of a string of forts around the south and east coasts
stretching from Porchester in Hampshire to Brancaster in
north Norfolk.
The fort now overlooks a large
expanse of grazing marshes to the west which once formed a
great inland estuary. Breydon Water is the last remnant of
that estuary today.
There is considerable evidence
for Anglo-Saxon activity in and around the fort, including a
Christian community or what may have been the monastery of a
seventh-century saint, St Fursey.
Later, when the Normans came
they built a castle in the south west corner, although
little of that remains after it was levelled in the
eighteenth century.
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