Southampton South Gate & Tower Hampshire

Southampton South Gate & Tower Hampshire. Southampton’s town walls are a sequence of defensive structures built around the town in southern England. The Normans built a castle in Southampton. However, it wasn’t until conflict with France, and French raids on the town, that the defences were expanded to include stronger walls, with towers and gate houses. Antique copper-plate engraving of The South-Gate and Tower, Southampton. Dated in the plate 27th July 1784. Size of engraved area approx 5x6ins.