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A ruin inside a ruin!

The ruin of St Mary's Church in Reculver, Kent, is itself inside the ruin of a Roman fort called Regulbium (the surrounding area of mown grass) #RomanFortThursday

📷 by Geoff soper / CC BY-SA 4.0 Aerial photo of a river bank. The ruins of a church with two
Here's an image from 1781, showing the intact church and part of the Roman wall (bordering its grounds in the bottom left).
Here's a picture of the wall itself, taken in the 1930s by the founder of Antiquity OGS Crawford.
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Another week, another #RomanFortThursday & today we are checking out Uxelodunum, aka Petriana, aka Stanwix fort. This was the largest fort on Hadrian’s Wall & it now lies under Stanwix, Carlisle. Aerial photograph of the suburb of Stanwix, Carlisle overlai
The fort of many names is likely a bit of a writing error. Petrianis was listed in the Notitia Dignitatum, but is actually the name of the fort’s cohort & Uxelodunum, the actual name of the fort, is the Latinised Celtic placename meaning ‘High Fort’.
The fort was built on a natural platform above the River Eden & covers about 9.32 acres (much larger than the average Wall fort). Due to the size, it is thought that the fort housed a cavalry unit of 1000 men, the Ala Petriana. Detailed drawing of a portion of a inscribed stone slab foun
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