Wery Wall
WERY WALL, VICARAGE LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed building
- List Entry Number:
- 1195059
- Date first listed:
- 22-Dec-1953
- Statutory Address:
- WERY WALL, VICARAGE LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed building
- List Entry Number:
- 1195059
- Date first listed:
- 22-Dec-1953
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 13-Mar-1995
- Statutory Address 1:
- WERY WALL, VICARAGE LANE
Location
- Statutory Address:
- WERY WALL, VICARAGE LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Lancashire
- District:
- Lancaster (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 47491 62022
Details
LANCASTER
SD4762 VICARAGE LANE 1685-1/3/312 (East side (off)) 22/12/53 Wery Wall (Formerly Listed as: BRIDGE LANE Wery Wall)
II
Fragment of masonry from C4 fort. Sandstone rubble. An irregular mass of masonry, standing approx 2m high above the upper ground level, and built into the edge of a steep slope which runs parallel with the River Lune. HISTORY: the Wery Wall is mentioned as a boundary in documents dating from C11 to C18, when its remains may have been more extensive. Its Roman origins were confirmed by excavations carried out in the early 1970s in advance of the adjacent Mitre House development. It probably formed the core of a polygonal external bastion at the north angle of a fort of the 'Saxon Shore' type which was constructed about AD 330 on a new alignment. The associated ditch cut through an earlier bath house which was also excavated, and its consolidated remains are now exposed and adjoin the Wery Wall. (Centre for North-West Regional Studies Occasional Papers: White A & Shotter D: The Roman Fort and Town of Lancaster: Lancaster: 1990-: 17, 27).
Listing NGR: SD4749162022
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 383345
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
White, A, Shotter, D, The Roman Fort and Town of Lancaster, (1990), 17,27
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