Archaeology Notes

Event ID 666337

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NJ26SW 1.01 22150 63170

(Centred NJ 2215 6317) Remains of the Precincts of the Cathedral (NR)

(NJ 2230 6293 & 2231 6284) Wall (NR) (Twice)

OS 25"map, (1905)

Of the Precinct wall itself, 12ft in height with three other gateways (additional to Pans Port - NJ 2231 6297) and over half a mile in circuit, nothing now remains but a short section adjoining Pans Port, and two other fragments to the south-west. The back wall of No.36 South College Street is also part of the Cathedral Precinct Wall. R Cant and I G Lindsay 1954.

Only two fragments of the wall are now extant. One is at NJ 2227 6284, preserved within a fenced enclosure. It is an angled fragment of wall 8.5m long, 2.0m thick and 2.7m maximum height. The other is a 27.0m length of wall at NJ2231 6295 south of Pans Port, with a maximum height of 2.4m.

Visited by OS (R D L) 13 December 1962.