Visit Fascinating Dover In The UK

The English Channel mostly faces Dover in England, and that is why called The Lock and Key of England. First to come here was Julius Caesar landing at Dover, in 55 BC to conquer England and later many followed like the Vikings and William the Conqueror also invaded Britain through Dover.

Its history as a military HQs town can be seen by its massive extensive remains of its Roman forts, 19th century forts and defenses during both the world wars, when it was Britains front line defense.
Today Dover depends a lot on its port for to stay intact. It is the busiest passenger ferry terminal in world, the busiest cruise liner terminal of Britain and its freight, especially fruit and perishable goods, move up and down via massive reefer cargo ships from here.

Only a few Stone Age axes were found in Dover because of its restless sea coast. About 6000 years ago, first known inhabitants of Dover in the River Dour Valley were the already perished Stone Age Farmers who came here by boats with animals and corn seeds.

Britains introductory shipwreck ever found, which went down in 1100 BC occurred in Dover during the Bronze age as 350 bronze tools, weapons and scrap metal were found on its coastline. Many Bronze Age graves were located around 1992, when they were preparing a lone road at the town centre, a big boat made of wood in the Bronze Age was extracted in a deep watery hole.

During the Romans rule, this British harbor was the nearest to the remaining of the Roman Empire, making Dover a bustling business town and it was sprawled over 5 hectares next to the Dour valley and everybody called this town DUBRIS after DUBRAS, the meaning waters in English.

The Roman Empire had a huge harbor, joined by two lighthouses and three forts. There are about 60 locations traced from the Roman era still existing in Dover, some of these resemble the Roman Painted House at Dover, the Roman lighthouses or Towers in Dover Castle grounds and the Roman fort of Rich borough near Sandwich. Its museum has a huge collection of Roman Samian.

Since 5th century when the Romans left Britain, the German tribes went over the North Sea to reside in Kent, which at that time was called DOFRAS. It became a significant residence for the Vikings living in Kent.

Many Saxon things were discovered from the Dover area like the Anglo-Saxon cemetery at Buckland, which was discovered in 1951, while constructing a new house estate there. 170 more graves were also discovered on this site, several had weapons, jewelery and household goods such as combs and pottery.

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