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NHER Number:	4294
Type of record:	Monument
Name:	Town wall and defences

Summary

The town walls and ditch date from the late 13th and 14th centuries. Large sections of the wall and eleven of the original sixteen towers are still standing. The ten gates were demolished in the late 18th and 19th centuries. The East Mount was constructed in 1588, the year of the Spanish Armada, and a moat was constructed in the 17th century, during the Civil War.

Images

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Grid Reference:	TG 5246 0749
Map Sheet:	TG50NW
Parish:	GREAT YARMOUTH, GREAT YARMOUTH, NORFOLK

Monument Types

WRECK (Unknown date)
TOWER (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
TOWN DEFENCES (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
TOWN WALL (Medieval to Post Medieval - 1066 AD to 1900 AD)
SIGNAL STATION (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
TOWN DEFENCES (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)

Associated Finds

COFFIN
COFFIN (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
POT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
TILE (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
COIN (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
POT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
TILE (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)

Protected Status:	Scheduled Monument

Full description

Medieval walls, and ditch in places.
East Mount added 1588; later outer moat to north and other alterations.
Remains in part scheduled.
Excavations 1955, 1972, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1986, 1996.
Finds of medieval and post medieval sherds, etc.
For full details see file.
E. Rose (NAU) 21 October 1997.

April 1997. Field observation.
Wall foundations of an octagonal projecting bastion type tower was seen. Some on south of King Henry Tower. The basal part of the foundation was faced with limestone blocks. The rest of the fabric of the wall was made up of flint and brick rubble. Two later walls abutted the interior of the tower.
J. Percival (NAU) 20 August 1997.

Sources and further reading

---	Bibliographic reference: 1942. Norfolk Archaeology. vol.XXVIII p.1ff.
---	Secondary File:
---	Slide: Slide.
---	Photograph: 1994. EAC 32 and 33.
---	Aerial Photograph: Edwards, D.A.. 1995. TG5207/ABM,ABS,ABT.
---	Unpublished document: Great Yarmouth Archaeological Soceity. 1978. Rampart Road, Great Yarmouth.
---	Unpublished document: Rose, E.. Great Yarmouth Town Defences.
---	Archive: National Archaeological Record.
---	Unpublished document: Rose, E.. 1984. Report on the Mount and adjacent wall line with regard to the propsed demolition of the General Hospital in 1984.
---	Unpublished document: Smith, R.. 1990. NAU Survey Report. The Town Wall, Great Yarmouth: The Section West of St Peter's Plain.
---	Unpublished document: Smith, R.. 1991. NAU Survey Report. The South East Tower, Great Yarmouth.
---	Bibliographic reference: Smith, R.. 1993. NAU Survey Report. The Town Wall, Great Yarmouth.
---	Unpublished document: Smith, R.. 1995. NAU Report No. 157. Report of Survey of the Town Wall, Great Yarmouth to the west of King Henry's Tower.
---	Unpublished document: Percival, J. and Forrest, K.. 1998. NAU Report No. 271. Results of Watching Brief at St Nicholas' Churchyard, Great Yarmouth.
---	Unpublished document: Smith, R.. 1995. NAU Survey Report No. 131. Great Yarmouth Town Wall.
---	Photograph: JV 20 and 25.
---	Photograph: CLY 3 to 13.
---	Photograph: CNH 17 to 21.
---	Photograph: CQH 2 and 3.
---	Photograph: CUW 12 and 13.
---	Photograph: CVZ 12 to 20.
---	Bibliographic reference: 1962. Eastern Daily Press. 25 October.
---	Bibliographic reference: 1977. Eastern Daily Press. 10 June.
---	Bibliographic reference: 1979. Eastern Daily Press. 3 December.
---	Bibliographic reference: 1980. Eastern Daily Press. 10 December.
---	Bibliographic reference: 1983. Eastern Daily Press. 24 May.
---	Bibliographic reference: 1983. Eastern Daily Press. 16 November.
---	Bibliographic reference: 1983. Eastern Daily Press. 17 November.
---	Bibliographic reference: 1984. Eastern Daily Press. 2 February.
---	Bibliographic reference: 1984. Eastern Daily Press. 12 June.
---	Bibliographic reference: 1984. Eastern Daily Press. 26 October.
---	Bibliographic reference: 1986. Eastern Daily Press. 6 November.
---	Bibliographic reference: 1990. Eastern Daily Press. 13 April.
---	Bibliographic reference: 1993. Eastern Daily Press. 23 April.
---	Bibliographic reference: 1955. Eastern Daily Press. 21 July.
---	Bibliographic reference: 1955. Yarmouth Mercury. 22 July.
---	Bibliographic reference: Eccleston, A. W.. 1959. The Rise Of Great Yarmouth.

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