Buckton Roman Fort

Buckton Roman Fort is an archaeological site at Buckton, about 1 mile south-west of Leintwardine [1]. The fort at Buckton is just above the floodplain of the River Teme [1]. The remains, entirely buried, were observed and photographed from the air by W A Baker in 1959, during a drought [1]. There was excavation between then and 1961, from which a chronology was established [1]. Originally there were turf ramparts and timber gate towers, constructed about AD 80 [1]. The fort replaced an earlier fort nearby at Jay Lane [1].