RICHBOROUGH CASTLE

A Roman fort built on the site of their first landing in AD43. The walls were added in the year 287 together with an 80 foot high arch. Most of the walls and surrounding earthworks are still standing but oly the foundations of the arch are left. When the fort was built it was it was surrounded by water on three sides, but silting of the Wantsum Channel which once separated the Isle of Thanet from the rest of Kent has left it two miles from the present sea shore.

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Photos Charles Taylor

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