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Anderida
Anderida
is an ancient
Roman
fort at
Pevensey[?]
, near
Eastbourne
in
Sussex
,
England
, built about A.D.
300
as part of a scheme of land-defense against the
Saxon
pirates; repaired, probably by the great
Stilicho
, about A.D.
400
; and after the
Norman Conquest
utilized by
William the Conqueror
for a
Norman
castle, and then later as a defensive emplacement in
World War II
. Its massive Roman
enceinte[?]
still stands but little damaged.
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