Buckton Roman Fort is an archaeological site at Buckton, about 1 mile south-west of

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Description

The Roman ''

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'' Bravonium was established at present-day Leintwardine about AD 70; a fort was built there about AD 160, and abandoned about AD 196. The fort at Buckton is just above the floodplain of the

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. The remains, entirely buried, were observed and photographed from the air by W A Baker in 1959, during a drought. There was excavation between then and 1961, from which a chronology was established. Originally there were turf ramparts and timber gate towers, constructed about AD 80. The fort replaced an earlier fort nearby at

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. It is thought that this site had a better water supply; traces of a

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were found to the east of the fort. The fort was rebuilt in stone about AD 120, with a similar size, about . It housed a cavalry unit. There were gates of width , inside stone gate towers; it was the largest gatehouse of an auxiliary fort known in Britain. The fort was later dismantled, perhaps to build the fort at Bravonium, and was abandoned in AD 130. There is an adjacent fort to the north-west, entirely buried but visible on aerial photographs, of area about . It is presumably associated with the larger fort, and may have been an earlier temporary fort.

References

{{reflist Scheduled monuments in Herefordshire Roman fortifications in England Archaeological sites in Herefordshire