Richborough Roman Fort
Roman Fort interactive model
Client: english heritage
Scope: models & Interactives
We worked with the teams from Scena Productions and English Heritage to produce this interactive model for Richborough Roman Fort designed by Leigh Cain Creative.
The interactive we built helps visitors to identify key components of the arch and gives a sense of how it would have been built. Our skilled carpenters combined hand and machine skills to build each piece, using a CNC machine to create some of the more complicated areas. To finish the model, our modelmaking team laser cut some of the architectural elements along with the dice motif for the game play.
Richborough was a key site in Roman Britain, over time the site developed from a military supply base into a thriving port town and later a massive fort. This port town included one of the biggest monumental arches in the Roman Empire. The arch, built in about AD 85, was exceptionally large and elaborate, 25m tall and it was clad in expensive white marble, imported from Italy, and adorned with sculptures and inscriptions. It was a ‘quadrifons’ arch, with an arch on each of its four sides.