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We're looking at the outer precinct wall.
The cathedral and priory were enclosed by an elaborate precinct wall, much of which survives.
Here's the Temple of Mars Ultor – that great precinct wall that divided it from the Subura, also visible here.
Within the 12th-century precinct wall, several monastic buildings are preserved, including an abbey gate and Norman bell tower.
And you'll remember that Augustus' architects had to build that large precinct wall out of peperino to protect the Temple of Mars Ultor from the fires that used to break out all the time in the Subura.
The cathedral largely vanished apart from the east and west gables and part of the south wall, but the priory precinct wall was preserved throughout virtually its entire length.
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In conversations with the Guardian from jail, three other people Zuley sent to prison – people who insist upon their innocence – describe being shackled through eyebolts for hours on end to precinct walls, giving Zuley's police work in Chicago echoes of his interrogation work at Guantánamo.
Along with the lodge, some of the abbey's precinct walls are still standing.
The original precinct walls were constructed of sandstone in the 13th century, and featured both projecting corner towers, and smaller interval towers along its length.
Many memorials and war cemeteries used precinct walls to mark out the memorial as special and sacred, originally a Roman feature made popular again in the 19th century.
Zuley's tactics, which would be supercharged at Guantánamo when he took over the interrogation of a high-profile detainee as a US Navy reserve lieutenant, included: Shackling suspects to police-precinct walls through eyebolts for hours on end.
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