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Walcheren-De Roompot
Detail of a map of Germania Inferior. Design Jona Lendering.
The location of Walcheren (54)
 Germania inferior: small province of the Roman empire, situated along the Lower Rhine. This webpage is part of a series of short descriptions of villages in Germania inferior. An overview can be found here.

In 173, the Chauci, a tribe that lived in what is now called Groningen and Ostfriesland, and was well-known for its sea-faring qualities, attacked what is now called Flanders. The governor of Gallia Belgica, Didius Julianus, defeated them. The Roman government responded by building several forts along the coast of what is now Zuid-Holland, Zeeland and West-Vlaanderen.The presence of a fort at the island Walcheren can be deduced from Roman roof tiles found at De Roompot. 

It is likely that the original fort was at some stage replaced by a heavily fortified castle, and we may assume that this happened in the fourth century, when the castle of Aardenburg was rebuilt from natural stone. 
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