Burgus
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A burgus (Latin, plural burgi ) or turris ("tower")[1] is a small, tower-like fort of the Late Antiquity, which was sometimes protected by an outwork and surrounding ditches. Darvill defines it as "a small fortified position or watch-tower usually controlling a main routeway."[2]
Burgus was a term used in the later period of the Roman Empire, and particularly in the Germanic provinces.[3]