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Excavations on the Westgate in 1945 to 1946 proved that the earth and timber defences of the legionary fortress were coincident with the stone wall of the colonia period on the west side. The system of defence was shown to be a timber palisade with the main posts set at five feet intervals in a palisade trench. It was supplemented on the outside by a rock cut v shaped ditch fifteen feet wide and six feet deep and on the inside by a compact earth and stone rampart ten feet wide at the base and seven feet high, presently strengthened by adding timber towers, the construction of which demanded the infilling of the first ditch and the cutting of another ditch further out, later destroyed by the Colonia fosse. {1}{2}{3}
During work on a retaining wall in the grounds of Westgate school, deposits associated with the Roman legionary and Colonia defences were identified. Specifically those were associated with the rampart bank. {4}
An archaeological watching brief maintained by CLAU during ground investigation (boreholes) by Lincs Lab at Westgate Junior School, Westgate, Lincoln was commissioned as a requirement of Scheduled Monument Consent (SAM 115). The results of the investigation supplemented existing information relating to the location and form of the eastern defences of the Roman city. {5}{6} | Subjects: | General Archaeology | Temporal: | 43 - 99 | Source: | Lincolnshire County Council | Identifier: | http://www.lincstothepast.com/Records/Re... | Go to resource |
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