Visitor tours and talks

PROJECT WORK is to begin on October 7, and will last for at least four months although pedestrian access to the ramparts will be maintained, albeit in a smaller space.

A temporary walkway is to be installed so visitors can see work in excavation, masonry and structural support progress, while ticketed tours are to be held at weekends and holidays with talks from archeologists and stonemasons.

The project, part of the city walls capital programme, is supported by Historic England.

Historians hope that evidence may reveal something about the relationship between the defensive walls and an abandoned castle which once occupied this corner of the city.