... similar to Bird Oswald fort on Hadrian's wall. Today it is an almost complete Roman fort. Almost all of the walls are intact apart from the loss of six of its original 'D'-shaped bastions. The keep in the north-west corner has taken some of the wall and one corner bastion from the northern side. Also missing are two bastions from the western side, and two bastions from the eastern seaward side, and lastly the bastion on the south-west corner is missing. It has, however, been stripped of some of the more useful limestone. (Birds eye view of Porchester castle) It was not long ago that I took an educational trip to see look at Porchester, I was given a tour of the castle and I was very intrigued to see a lot of the castle still in tact. When I say this I do not just mean the walls, but there were ...

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