Monument record MCC2706 - Bastion 2, Town Wall, Colchester

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Medieval bastion, Priory Street

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Grid reference TM 0018 2510 (point)
Map sheet TM02NW
Non Parish Area COLCHESTER, COLCHESTER, ESSEX

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Bastion built c.1400.

Hull records an excavation by P. G. Laver on Bastion 2 of the town walls but there is no other record of this event.<1>

Watercolour showing crenalated bastion on south-east circuit of the Town wall in Priory Street (next to Mulberry Trees Nursery).<2>

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  • <1> Monograph: Hull, M.R.. 1958. Roman Colchester: Reports of the Research Committee of the Society of Antiquaries of London. No. XX. 50.
  • <2> Graphic material: Unknown. The Roman Walls of Colchester, East Bastion.

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Sep 4 2018 1:39PM

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