Although not original, the walling here gives an impression of what the Hereford walls were like.  The city ditch was in front of this wall. 

Boreholes behind this wall found a very compact layer of gravel – the base of the 12th century gravel rampart which preceded the stone wall.

Immediately to the north of this site was the most imposing of Hereford’s medieval gates – variously known as Bye Gate, Bister’s Gate or Bishopstreet Gate.

The Bye Gate in the 18th century (courtesy of Hereford City Library).  On the extreme left is the turret or ‘bastion’ which gives Bastion Mews its name. The left hand side of the gatehouse here was used as the city prison for many years until replaced with a new building in what is now Gaol Street.  This is now the Elim Pentecostal Church. history

Publication

This site will be published in a volume of Archenfield Archaeology’s Hereford City excavations to be published by Logaston Press

A note on this project appears in the 1998 volume of the Transactions of the Woolhope Naturalists’ Field Club

Unpublished report

A report on the archaeological watching brief of a borehole survey at Bastion Mews, Hereford - Huw Sherlock, Archenfield Archaeology 1998

This report is available at the Archaeological Data Service site

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