ROMANO-BRITISH SUFFOLK 



There might also be a look-out and signalling station at Caister, north of 

 Yarmouth, where Roman remains have been found. From it there would be 

 a wide view both over the North Sea and the passage into Breydon. Nor must 

 we forget the fleet. To be of any service there must have been a certain 

 number of vessels for the defence of the coast and harbours near each station, 

 and Breydon offered a good anchorage for Gariannonum. From he Notitia 

 Dignitatum, compiled it is believed in the 5th century, it appe? s that the 

 fortress was garrisoned by a body of cavalry, the Stablesian Horse. The 

 land for many miles south of the station was flat and in placts high above 

 the sea, and well adapted for any work cavalry would have to do ; ani from 

 this point on the Waveney as far as Dunwich a Roman port, presumably 

 walled, could be easily patrolled when necessity arose.^" 



Walton. — Travelling southward, at the south corner of the county and 

 upon its coast line 

 (plan III) will be 

 found the compa- 

 nion fortress to the 

 one just described. 

 But before giving 

 any account of what 

 is known of it the 

 district which it 

 was erected to 

 guard must be no- 

 ticed, or the reason 

 for the need of its 

 existence will not 

 be apparent. 



At this south- 

 ern corner of Suf- 

 folk there are three 

 waterways, two of 

 which penetrate far 

 into the land. The 

 first and most east- 

 erly, the Deben, so 

 called from the 

 little stream which 

 flows into it, runs 

 up as far as Wood- 

 bridge, and a short 

 distance beyond 

 this town is Burgh, 

 already mentioned. 

 Farther south come 

 the estuaries of the 

 Orwell and the 



COAST LINE OF 



SUFFOLK AND ESSEX 



FROM BAWDSEY HAVEN TO 

 WALTON ON THE NAZE 



Xbc DOrreo DNt shows tiiaH watzr mark. 



O I 2 MILCS 



Plan III. — Plan showing Position of Walton Castle 



" Mag. Brit. (1730), v, 191 ; Soc. of Antiq. Min. Bk. (1758), viii, 67 ; Suckling, Hist. ofSuff: (184.8), ii 

 262 ; Arch. Joum. (1858), xv, 155. 



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