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The civil parish has an area of 21.43 Km&2 and in the 2001 Census had a population of 897 in 453 households. For the purposes of local government, the parish falls within the District of King's Lynn And West Norfolk . A petrified forest can be seen on the shore near Brancaster at low tide. There was a Roman settlement here named Branodunum . The fort at Brancaster, and accompanying area (much of which was destroyed during the construction of a housing development in the 1970's) is not visible now, and remains mainly untouched. The garrison at Brancaster was made up of Cavalry from Dalmatia in what is now Croatia and Montenegro . Native Roman centurions and officers were rarely posted to such remote places unless deemed necessary for disciplinary reasons. Numerous theories exist as to what the Roman presence would have made or exploited in the area, in particular, the natural harbour that the fort would have been very close to at that time. Theories have connected it with fossilised resins (Amber) although this is unlikely, a more likely cargo for the ships of the time would have been grain and oysters. REFERENCES |
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