CONTENTS

PAGE
Preface [vii]
List of Illustrations [xi]
Part I
Prehistoric Camps[3]
The Roman Invasion of Britain[5]
The Count of the Saxon Shore[13]
Roman Coast Fortresses[16]
Part II
The Saxon Settlement of England[75]
Danish Incursions and Camps[80]
The Norman Invasion of England[86]
Norman Coast Castles[87]
Part III
Mediaeval Castles and Walled Towns on the Coast[95]
Part IV
Coast Defences under Henry VIII and Later
On the East Coasts of Kent and Sussex[159]
Of the Estuaries of the Thames, the Medway, etc.[179]
Of the South Coast[182]
Part V
Miscellaneous Defences
The Navy[195]
The Cinque Ports[196]
Defensive Chains, etc.[204]
The Coastguard[212]
Index [219]

[LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS]

FIG. PAGE
Dover Castle. Buck’s engraving [Frontispiece]
1. Gariannonum (Burgh Castle). Plan [22]
2. Gariannonum (Burgh Castle). Plan published in 1776 [23]
3. West Mersea. Plan of Roman building [27]
4. Regulbium (Reculver). Plan [29]
5. Regulbium (Reculver). Roman masonry [31]
6. Reculver. The ruins of the church [33]
7. Rutupiae (Richborough). Plan [36]
8. Reculver. From a print published in 1781 [39]
9. Richborough. Roman masonry of north wall [43]
10. Dover, Roman Pharos. Elevation of north side [47]
11. Dover, Roman Pharos. Section [51]
12. Lymne. Roman walls [54]
13. Lymne. Plan [55]
14. Pevensey. Bastion [59]
15. Porchester. Plan [63]
16. Porchester. Water-gate [65]
17. Porchester. Exterior of west wall [67]
18. Shoebury. Plan of Danish camp [83]
19. Yarmouth. North Gate, 1807 [104]
20. Yarmouth. South Gate, 1807 [105]
21. Ipswich. St. Matthew’s Gate, 1785 [107]
22. Orford Castle, Suffolk, 1810 [109]
23. Cowling Castle, Kent, 1784 [114]
24. Queenborough Castle, Kent. Plan [118]
25. Queenborough Castle, Kent. View in 1784 [119]
26. Canterbury Castle in the Eighteenth Century [121]
27. Sandwich, Kent. Fisher Gate [123]
28. Sandwich, Kent. Barbican [126]
29. Dover. Bird’s-eye view of town and harbour, temp. Queen Elizabeth [131]
30. Saltwood Castle, Kent. The Gate House [135]
31. Portsmouth Harbour, temp. King Henry VIII [143]
32. Southsea Castle, temp. King Henry VIII [147]
33. Southampton. Plan [150]
34. Deal Castle, Kent [163]
35. Tilbury Fort in the Year 1588 [166]
36. Tilbury Fort in the Year 1808 [167]
37. General Plan of Henry VIII’s Blockhouses on Kent and Sussex Coasts [170]
38. Sandown Castle. Plan [171]
39. Deal Castle. Plan [172]
40. Walmer Castle. Plan [173]
41. Walmer Castle from the North [175]
42. Sandgate Castle. Plan [177]
43. Camber Castle. Plan [178]
44. Upnor Castle, Kent [180]
45. Hurst Castle, Hants [183]

PART I

[PREHISTORIC CAMPS]
[THE ROMAN INVASION OF BRITAIN]
[THE COUNT OF THE SAXON SHORE]
[ROMAN COAST FORTRESSES]