IN THE ROMAN EMPIRE, THE LATIN WORD CASTRUM WAS A BUILDING OR AREA OF LAND USED AS A FORTIFIED MILITARY CAMP. A CASTRUM COULD BE APPLIED TO VARIOUS FORTIFICATIONS FROM A LARGE LEGIONARY FORTRESS, AUXILIARY FORTS TO TEMPORARY MARCHING CAMPS.
When the Roman’s arrived on the shores of Britannia around 43CE, they built a series of forts over hundreds of years, that stretched from the southern coast of Britannia and as far north as the Moray Firth around Inverness in Scotland.
Fort construction even carried on into the last centuries of Roman Britain, with the construction of Saxon Shore Forts (click here), to deter and provide protection for the inhabitants from Saxon and Frankish Pirates....
https://www.heritagedaily.com/2018/01/10-roman-forts-britannia/117215
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