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wall has an angular coping. The total length of wall is 37ft. 

 Its height to top of piece between embrasures is 15ft., its thickness 

 at the lower part is 2ft. lOin. at base of doorway, at embrasure 11 in. 

 Its aspect is W.S.W. Sydenham's plate only represents 13ft. of 

 its length, the corbels being carried under the house, which has 

 been built up against the wall or against the gable of a house built 

 up on the other side and on it ; the wall continues the length of 

 the passage and then turns sharply to the eastward, the angle 

 being well formed of ashlar. On the inside, within the 

 inn yard, may be seen where the gable end of the house was. 

 There are also some narrow steps from the north end leading up 

 to a narrow platform under the embrasures. These steps are 

 eight in number they are parallel to the wall and part of it. The 

 tread is formed of flag stones, projecting somewhat over the rubble 

 masonry forming the wall. The width of the steps at the base is 

 1ft. 6in., of the tread 9in., the rise 7in. The height from the 

 ground to the top of the lowest step is 40in. The width of the 

 platform is 2ft. 3in., its length 16ft. 6in., and its height from the 

 ground to the top of the platform 8ft. Gin. The wall runs 

 W.N.W. and E.S.E. The embrasures are above the doorway 

 which looks towards the Hamworthy shore, near the end of the 

 present bridge, and to a spot on the edge of Poole Quay, 74yds. 

 from the end of the great Quay. It is 92yds. from this spot on the 

 edge of the Quay to the walls. The great Quay is 64yds. in length, 

 with the ferry about the centre of it, so that the spot to which this 

 wall looks, and from which it would have to be seen, is 102yds. 

 from the ferry, and as there are the remains of a building with 4ft. 

 stone walls at a distance of 24ft. from this St. Clement's Wall, 

 which building extends towards the Quay, it could be seen from 

 no other spot than the one mentioned and from Hamworthy, from 

 the spot mentioned at the foot of the bridge, which spot laid 

 entirely out of the road to Poole from Lytchett along the 

 Hamworthy promontory. 



I have been thus particular as to the aspect of the wall, and the 

 points from which it could be seen, in order to compare its situation, 



