' ' A tifTungricani,27 who are reckoned
among till:  ,13 was stationed here, part of
whmemmomyfllnwflhlzmmws may havebemwhich the
people offlne wonder, and whidt used to be
shot out  hail‘ lfiulm the coming in of the Saxons to
the end'of their guvunmlllt, I do not find the lust mention of
this castle" or t1own,=c|n:1itinccrtain loose  from
a table hung up  that Caesar, afizerhelanded at
Deal, and had roumdtltfllritzns at Baramdo||m,31 a neighbour-
ing plain fitfor horse, IllIl“flBl'€f0I'C for  up an army,
z. Substructionibu-s,  G25 /\
_ \
(S.O.E.D., s. n. key, sh’). Tlmsnt
ofmodern ‘key’ is neoemlyillh:
Leland because of its  alldlill
with ‘bar’ (ofa gateway uttbtlj.
A number ofwriters fiom Wiilll
of Malmesbury onwards umllli
phrase of Dover. Lamb, p. I35,
actually quotes Malrnesbury.
23 The castrum (n. 16 above) W
mentioned in pre—Norm:n dom-
ments is a late Roman Port
of the Saxon Shore now overhidl
by the modem town. 'I‘llel|istury l
of Dover Castle may, horwevur,
extend back to the late S31!!!
period ifthree of the Norunn
chroniclers are to be relied Ilpllll.
Then the Early Iron Age eartllwmis
bricks, probably primal fizum mind
buildings in the Runm town. -
:5 This is the late cmcrezxly cu
church of St Mary-is-Cairn, ml:
of the most complzte ofSn|m
churches, though  llllllud in
cr9 after use as aunl-stun. Its
structure contains nlllzh Roman
brick and at its wuutull mails a
much-altered Rmmn lflmus,
probably of A.D. (:1. ltnwul as a
bell-tower to the clmuzh mlzil crll. -
Leland (L. T.S. Iv, 55) mu: a passage
from the Latin Clmni:k tithe
Monastery of Dover tnfll: fiat
that Lucius the  
the church in Dtnu Catk. Andi.
joum. CXXVI, 165; B. JE, E. Kent,
"P -278—9- ’\
on the site were adapted for |;|uq>ur P
of defence by King Harold. See
Dover Castle, p. 4. There is a fintlmr
possibility, that the prehistzoric
earthwork had been iefashimmd as a
Saxon burl: and that V/'i1lia_n:rIpul:
his castle within it as he did at
Pevensey and Porchester. See Allrll.
joum. cxxvr, 265; The Nomnu,
p. 119, 11.48, and p. 137; l\Jnl.An:||.
vr-vn, 322; vrn, 254—5 ; 11, I90;
x, 190-91.
16 The classical  of
substructio was 'f '.
Gibson (‘ G’) was 
that brick substructnms were
normally provided only for ‘larger
buildings ’.
21 Camdeii had this fimn the
Niitilia Dignitatum, on which see
p.4, n. 35; and Ard|._]oum.xcvrl,
I40. The milites Tluigrrmni were
recruited into the Roman army
24 As before noted, these are Roman from what is now part of Belgium.

emperor had delegated control.
29 In the England of c16, a basilisk
was a cannon that discharged shot
of about 200 lbs. Probably Camden
had in mind a ballisla, a large
caiap\ult for hurling iron bolts or
stones. The sockets for such, or
similar engines, are still visible in the
tops of the bastions of some Roman
forts, e.g., Burgh, Suffolk. For the
mfisiles cast by these engines see
R. E. M. Wheeler, Maiden_CastIe,
I943, pp. 281-2 and figs. 93, I-I3‘;
for the engines themselves Archaeology
ifRun|n| Eirain, pp. 306-7. g
JD Tkdgb-Sewn! Chronicle,‘
M55 ‘E’ and ‘F’, rcfiar toincidents
air Dover in 105: (mislzted 1048)
and 1o5z(eul-rectly dated).
31 Bcrl:|zmDownsist:r:vern:lby
themainRom:nro:|dfromDover
toCfl|t|:rl1ulry,builtalJoutac:r1mry
after-Ca@|:'scxpedit;ioustn
Brm' m' -TheL1tinCIumu:"IeJ

(LT-S-W. ss) =7==
Julim Cami: Euught with the Britons
all  m on Barham Down, as
is evident Erom the barrows (acervas)
lmpedupoverrhebodiesoftheslain
not fir from the village of Bridge.
There are still barrows in this area, ’
some posibly of the Bronze Age,
some Romano-British and some
Saxon. Leland (L. T.S. IV, 41) also
IIOCCSI
In the paroche of Barehamdoune a litle
from the wood side, and about a 6.
(myles) from Dovar, apperith a dikid
mmpe [NG 206 517?] of men of warre.
Sum say that it was Caesar’s cam[p]:
sum thinke that it was a_campe of the
Danes. It hath 3. diches.
Lamb., p. 245, brings Caesar from
Deal to 'Baramdowne’.