Link to the Show / Show NotesBurgh Castle is in fact a Roman Fort built in the late third or early fourth century, as part of a string of forts around the south and east coasts stretching from Porchester in Hampshire to Brancaster in north Norfolk.The fort now overlooks a large expanse of grazing marshes to the west which once formed a great inland estuary. Breydon Water is the last remnant of that estuary today.
There is considerable evidence for Anglo-Saxon activity in and around the fort, including a Christian community or what may have been the monastery of a seventh-century saint, St Fursey.
Later, when the Normans came they built a castle in the south west corner, although little of that remains after it was levelled in the eighteenth century.
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