Uploaded December 2017 | Updated September 2026, 3 days ago
As featured on BBC 4 "Digging For Britain' with Professor Alice Roberts, November 2017. The newly discovered archaeological location (Univ Leicester) of Julius Caesar invasion camp of 54 BC at Pegwell Bay in Kent. The archeological site is now covered over but lies in the field in front of the small wood North of the new dual carriageway at Cliffsend.
Julius Caesar invaded Britain twice: in 55 and 54 BC. The first invasion, in late summer, was unsuccessful, gaining the Romans little else besides a beachhead on the coast of Kent.
Caesar initially tried to land at Dubris (Dover), whose natural harbour had presumably been identified by Volusenus as a suitable landing place. However, when he came in sight of shore, the massed forces of the Britons gathered on the overlooking hills and cliffs dissuaded him from landing there, since the cliffs were so close to the shore that javelins could be thrown down from them onto anyone landing there
The Roman historical site of the Claudian invasion of AD 43 at Richborough is approximately two miles away.
Two thousand years ago, the seashore came-up very close to the main road and Caesar had his fleet anchored in the bay, where they were ravaged by a sudden storm.
Drone Video Simon Moores.
As featured on BBC 4 "Digging For Britain' with Professor Alice Roberts, November 2017. The newly discovered archaeological location (Univ Leicester) of Julius Caesar invasion camp of 54 BC at Pegwell Bay in Kent. The archeological site is now covered over but lies in the field in front of the small wood North of the new dual carriageway at Cliffsend.
Julius Caesar invaded Britain twice: in 55 and 54 BC. The first invasion, in late summer, was unsuccessful, gaining the Romans little else besides a beachhead on the coast of Kent.
Caesar initially tried to land at Dubris (Dover), whose natural harbour had presumably been identified by Volusenus as a suitable landing place. However, when he came in sight of shore, the massed forces of the Britons gathered on the overlooking hills and cliffs dissuaded him from landing there, since the cliffs were so close to the shore that javelins could be thrown down from them onto anyone landing there
The Roman historical site of the Claudian invasion of AD 43 at Richborough is approximately two miles away.
Two thousand years ago, the seashore came-up very close to the main road and Caesar had his fleet anchored in the bay, where they were ravaged by a sudden storm.
Drone Video Simon Moores.
