Source/Archive record SEM8668 - A composite coastal cordon on Exmoor? Exploring local influence on First-Century AD fortlet use
Type | Article in serial |
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Title | A composite coastal cordon on Exmoor? Exploring local influence on First-Century AD fortlet use |
Author/Originator | Symonds, M. |
Date/Year | 2018 |
Serial Title | Britannia : A Journal of Romano-British and Kindred Studies |
Volume | 49 |
Part/Number | 53-77 |
International Standard Serial Number | 0068-113X |
International Standard Serial Number | 1753-5352 |
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Abstract/Summary
Exceptional aspects of the design and location of a pair of first-century fortlets on the Exmoor coast are explicable as a product of local influence. Previous explanations for the remote setting of these small posts and the distinctive defences securing them have focused on a signalling role, with the fortlets serving as a means to transmit messages to naval vessels patrolling the Bristol Channel. Instead, both the landscape setting and articulation with local settlement patterns imply that these installations strengthened pre-existing measures to counter coastal raiding. Parallels between this variant fortlet design and settlement morphology in the South-West peninsula suggest that the army co-opted an indigenous architectural style. The two fortlets could act as components of what was effectively a composite coastal cordon, built on collaboration between the Roman military and the local population.
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- doi.org/10.1017/S0068113X18000120 (Cambridge Core webpage for journal article)
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