The document known as the Notitia Dignitatum (‘Register of Offices’) is a list of the civil and military organisation of the Roman empire ca AD 390-425. It is the only textual reference to the littoris Saxonici per Brittaniam, the so-called Saxon Shore, a network of coastal installations in eastern and southern Britain with attached garrisons. The forts and their garrisons are listed as follows, with their identified modern place-names:
Sub dispositione uiri spectabilis comitis littoris Saxonici per Britanniam
- Praepositus numeri Fortensium, Othonae (Bradwell, Essex)
- Praepositus militum Tungrecanorum, Dubris (Dover, Kent)
- Praepositus numeri Turnacensium, Lemannis (Lympne, Kent)
- Praepositus equitum Dalmatarum Branodunensium, Branoduno (Brancaster, Norfolk)
- Praepositus equitum stablesianorum Gariannoensium, Gariannonor (Burgh Castle, Norfolk)
- Tribunus cohortis primae Baetasiorum, Regulbio (Reculver, Kent)
- Praefectus legionis secundae Augustae, Rutupis (Richborough, Kent)
- Praepositus numeri Abulcorum, Anderidos (Pevensey, East Sussex)
- Praepositus numeri exploratorum, Portum Adurni (Portchester, Hampshire)