Hello and welcome to another episode of the ancient warfare podcast.

With me today, Mark DeSantis, Murray Dom, Mark McCaffrey and Lindsay Powell,

and our engineer is Angus Wallace of the History Network, doing the recording in Quiet as always.

Today we're going to talk about some more walls we did that last time so we did it some more uh actual walls and fortifications

more like um last time we talked about hadrian's wall and now we're going to talk about the subject

of the latest issue of ancient orpher magazine, issue 154, which talked about the section Chor Forts,

which is one of those wonderful examples where we have some really prominent

leftovers, remains of something ancient, and it has a name,

or at least we have a name for some of those fortifications.

Well, if you read the issue, that's sort of the summary of what we know, they're there,

but what exactly they're there for is something that occupied much of that issue and has

occupied learned people for a long time and I'm sure we'll try to do

it some more today. Murray wrote an article in the issue about the only time the fortifications

were, at least as far as we know, used as fortifications for defense, about two centuries after

they were actually built.

Let's try and can we give sort of a summary of what this system may have looked like

without people needing a map, Murray?

Right.

So at some point in the third century, a number of forts were built on the east coast and southeast coast of Britain.

They, we think, are part of a system, but then there are those these days who say that it's not a system.

It's, how do you call it a system?

And absolutely, they're known as the Saxon shore forts.

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