Another 18th-century view of the South Gate of the Roman Upper City at Lincoln (Grimm, 1784):pic.twitter.com/mG6VAFcQR4
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Another 18th-century view of the South Gate of the Roman Upper City at Lincoln (Grimm, 1784):pic.twitter.com/mG6VAFcQR4
A reconstruction of the Roman Upper South Gate at Lincoln, by David Vale: https://www.visitlincoln.com/things-to-do/interest/roman-upper-south-gate …pic.twitter.com/2Pp5mzUdGM
The excavated stone steps leading up to the Upper South Gate on Steep Hill, Lincoln: https://romanlincolnshire.files.wordpress.com/2017/08/steep-hill-steps.jpg …pic.twitter.com/dEu97MvZtE
A large chunk of the Roman northern wall of Lincoln's Upper City, just to the east of the Newport Arch; in front of it was the castellum aquae (water tank) that stored the water brought into the city by the aqueduct pipe: https://www.visitlincoln.com/things-to-do/interest/city-wall-castellum-aquae-and-ditch …pic.twitter.com/Kf4SFfwwdX
Just to the south of this, on the opposite side of East Bight, were the public baths of the Upper City, which were decorated with imported marble veneers—some imported from as far afield as Greece and Turkey.pic.twitter.com/Xb5TWlg7NA
The remains of the Roman Lower West Gate at Lincoln: http://static.panoramio.com/photos/original/16775087.jpg …pic.twitter.com/ABqc2L18kZ
A Roman tombstone set into the 11th-century tower of St Mary-le-Wigford, Lincoln, with an added dedication at the top of the stone reading 'Eirtig had me built and endowed to the glory of Christ and Saint Mary': http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1707638 & https://romaninscriptionsofbritain.org/inscriptions/262 …pic.twitter.com/dimeole4xW
Painted Roman wall plaster from Lincoln, in @collectionusher.pic.twitter.com/2JG4gIMGDI
A doorway and staircase from the surviving remnants of the 3rd-century AD Upper East Gate of Roman Lincoln; the East Gate was apparently used as a residence in the medieval period, being given to the bishop in 1130–3 by Henry I.pic.twitter.com/oeyhnVEsoP
Yes! Intriguingly, so much more survived of this and other gates right into modern eras, with the demolition of two of them being 18thC!
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