The 3rd-century AD Newport Arch, Lincoln — the former Roman north gate to the Upper City, said to be oldest arch in the UK still used by traffic.pic.twitter.com/l2M6UqmR7Z
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A 19th-century image of the infamous villain Spring-Heeled Jack supposedly atop the Roman Newport Arch, Lincoln :) https://ghostsandfolklore.blogspot.co.uk/2015/04/the-elusive-spring-heeled-jack.html …pic.twitter.com/XiiEYeYMn0
The lost Roman west gate to the Upper City at Lincoln, found buried beneath the walls of the Norman castle in 1836: http://www.wellandantiquemaps.co.uk/western-gate-roman-lindum-lincoln-gentlemans-magazine-c1836 …pic.twitter.com/CN9zcfmjsU
The surviving remains of Lincoln's 3rd-century AD Roman East Gate to the Upper City: https://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/101388538-remains-of-north-tower-of-roman-east-gate-lincoln …pic.twitter.com/SxzwsnG47K
Drawing of the Roman and medieval East Gate by Nathan Drake, c. 1740; it was demolished in 1763: http://www.itsaboutlincoln.co.uk/lincolns-gates.html …pic.twitter.com/ZVFLkzeemi
The Roman South Gate to the Upper City at Lincoln, in 1740 and 2007; the road-arch was removed in the early 18th century: http://www.itsaboutlincoln.co.uk/lincolns-gates.html … & http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/305495 pic.twitter.com/JGZ5TQnirX
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
I'm puzzled by how high the arches look compared to today. Normally I'd figure that the street level had been raised, but here's what appears to be an 18th C engraving, showing the street level higher than the pedestrian walkway, as it is today.pic.twitter.com/auLqbNwFOt
Most intriguing...!
It’ll be the weight of that Spring-Heeled Jack dancing on the top that lowered it a bit? ;)pic.twitter.com/Am6IteLOil
Oh, well that explains it, Catherine! I thought that perhaps the artist who drew the 18th C drawing Caitlin posted had drawn some of it from (imperfect) memory. But your explanation makes much more sense. And it appears that Jack's in rather a bad way!
Ah, yes! Very interesting :)
Have you read about Boudica? I went to Iceland in 15 right after reading about her I was enthralled
Bodice was a rebel to the Roman empire. I believe Icenii had a culture but destroyed completely in the aftermath. Did she come from Lindum?
Boudica was like me a victim of predictive Roman txt @culturewrld
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