Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society . f new factory, which had not been removed by the endof 1900,1 was recommenced at the opening of the year, andby the end of January this section of that great work ofdefence had been totally cleared. (Plate 1.) As the wall did not run on to a definite termination, thereis no hope now of fixing the exact position of the UpperPithay Gateway, which must have been somewhere nearthis spot. The entire stretch of these massive foundations actuallydestroyed, from St. Johns slope to the Pithay slope, com-prised about 37
Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society . f new factory, which had not been removed by the endof 1900,1 was recommenced at the opening of the year, andby the end of January this section of that great work ofdefence had been totally cleared. (Plate 1.) As the wall did not run on to a definite termination, thereis no hope now of fixing the exact position of the UpperPithay Gateway, which must have been somewhere nearthis spot. The entire stretch of these massive foundations actuallydestroyed, from St. Johns slope to the Pithay slope, com-prised about 370 feet, and included the crumbling base ofthe Tower to which Seyer refers to as a well Hesays:— A short distance before you come to St. Johns church-yard is still to be seen a semi-circular tower (butmutilated) projecting outward from the wall, and nowforming part of a house in Tower Lane, probably socalled from this very tower. The stone of division1 See Transactions, vol. xxiii., p. Seyer (Rev. S.), Memoirs of Bristol, 1821, vol. i., p. 266, Sec. SECTION OF NORMAN WALLBETWEEN THE PITHAY AND ST. JOHNS SLOPE. f. •
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