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What exactly are we trying to prove??

We know that the Saxon Shore was a phenonenon of late Roman defensive policy ; ;

in other words its existence belongs to the period of Roman Britain.

So whenever the Romans finally withdrew from the island, the Saxon Shore disappeared in the first decade of the fifth century.

We also know that the Saxon Shore as reflected in the Notitia was created as a part of the Theodosian reorganization of Britain ( post A.D. 369 ).

My argument is that there was no Saxon Shore prior to that time even though the forts had been in existence since the time of Carausius.

Therefore, what we must prove or disprove is that there were Saxons, in the broad sense in which we must construe the word, in the area of the Saxon Shore at the time it was called the Saxon Shore.

That is, we must find Saxons in East Anglia, Kent, Sussex and Hampshire in the last half of the fourth century.