Editing Limes (Roman Empire) (section)

=== Saxon Shore ===
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[[File:Litus Saxonicum.png|thumb|Map of British and Gallic forts on the Saxon Shore]]
This section of the ''limes'' existed from the 3rd to 5th centuries AD and covered the provinces of:

* ''Britannia Inferior''
* ''Belgica''
* ''[[Lugdunensis]]''
* ''[[Aquitania]]''

This ''limes'' of the [[Late Antiquity]] ran through the territory of the present-day [[United Kingdom]] and [[France]]. In the 3rd century, a separate military district, the ''Litus Saxonicum'',{{cn|date=February 2024}} was established on the British side of the [[English Channel]] between the estuaries of [[the Wash]] and the [[Solent]], to repel [[Saxon]] pirates and plunderers. The Gallic side of the English Channel and Atlantic coast were included therein. Monitoring and coastal surveillance were carried out by a chain of watchtowers or signal towers, forts and fortified ports (Gaul). Most of the Saxon Shore camps probably served as naval bases.{{cn|date=February 2024}}

The garrisons of the forts were composed of infantry and several cavalry regiments. Monitoring and surveillance of the Channel were the responsibility of the ''[[Classis Britannica]]'' and ''Classis Sambrica'', whose headquarters were in ''Locus Quartensis'' (Port d'Etaple), guarding the mouth of the [[River Somme]]. The units of ''[[comitatenses]], [[limitanei]]'' and ''liburnaria'' in this area came under the command of three generals:

* ''[[Count of the Saxon Shore|Comes litoris Saxonici per Britanniam]]'' (Count of the Saxon Shore)
* ''[[Dux Belgicae secundae]]''
* ''[[Dux tractus Armoricani et Nervicani]]''
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