HeritageGateway - Home
Site Map
Text size: A A A
You are here: Home > > > > Shropshire HER Result
Shropshire HERPrintable version | About Shropshire HER | Visit Shropshire HER online...

HER Number (PRN):62502
Name:Shrewsbury Castle, outer bailey defences, (east side)
Type of Record:Monument
Protected Status:Conservation Area: Shrewsbury
Scheduled Monument 1003706: Title not entered

Monument Type(s):

  • RAMPART (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1540 AD)

Summary

Scheduled Monument: The site of the eastern earthwork defences of Shrewsbury Castle's outer bailey, which extended into the area which is now Scheduled.

Parish:Shrewsbury, Shrewsbury and Atcham, Shropshire
Map Sheet:SJ41SE
Grid Reference:SJ 4941 1274

Related records

62499Part of: Shrewsbury Castle, outer bailey (Monument)
62540Related to: Castle Street south tenements (Monument)
60244Related to: Fragment of Town Wall, Traitor's Gate Restaurant, St Mary's Water Lane, Shrewsbury (Monument)
62530Related to: Shrewsbury Castle Outer Bailey Wall/ Town Wall (Section: N of Council Ho) (Monument)
62531Related to: Shrewsbury Castle Outer Bailey Wall/ Town Wall (Section: S of Council Ho) (Monument)
62503Related to: Shrewsbury Castle, outer bailey gate (Monument)
62500Related to: Shrewsbury Castle, outer bailey rampart (west side) (Monument)
62501Related to: Shrewsbury Castle, outer bailey, rampart (Monument)

Associated Finds: None recorded

Associated Events: None recorded

Description

Projected line of the outer bailey defences (by analogy with 62500/62501, an earth rampart along the top of the escarpment) from the probable gate site (62503), along the course of the 13th-century town wall (62530/62531) to the castle motte (62504) <1>

Sources

[01]SSA20432 - HER comment: Baker Nigel J. UAD Analysis. 13/06/1997.
Date Last Edited:Jan 6 2021 5:44PM