Fossa Corbulonis

• The Fossa Corbulonis was built in Germania Inferior in 47 CE by General Corbulo. It was a 23 mile long canal, built to avoid the North Sea that connected the Rhine to the river Meuse from Leiden, Delft to Maasland-Sluys.
• The canal still exists today and is known as the Rijn-Schlie canal or as the Vliet..

Archeological Park of Matilo

• A Fort was located at the junction of the Fossa Corbulonis with the River Oude.
• Archeological Park of Matilo

Sources

• Tacitus, Dio Cassius.

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Matilo Fort