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Designations

• Scheduled Monument 1006293: Wallingford Town Walls

Monument Type(s):

• GATE (Early Medieval to Medieval - 410 AD? to 1539 AD?)
• TOWN DEFENCES (Early Medieval to Medieval - 410 AD? to 1539 AD?)

Summary

Consists of possible original entrance to town defences; there is insufficient evidence to date the defences themselves.

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds:

Description

1-4) A bump on the road at the position given for the site of this gate clearly shows the course of the town rampart, and consequently, that the gate was elsewhere. The amended position (SU 6065 8910) coincides with the junction of a bend in the rampart and the projection of St Mary's Street within the town, and Squires Walk without. Indirect evidence for the amended siting is provided by the probable remains of St John's Hospital (PRN 8775) which lies immediately beside the road without the gate

<1> Victoria County History of Berkshire, Vol I (1906) p.216 (Serial). SOX6.

<2> OS Record Card, SU 68 NW 4 (Index). SOX273.

<3> NMR Monument - Long Listing Filed in Detailed Record File (Index). SOX391.

<4> Ordnance Survey, 25" Map, (1912) (Map). SOX394.

<5> CBA South Midlands Group, South Midlands Archaeology, CBA9 NL 13 (1983) p.150 (Serial). SOX5.

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