Monument record MDO1693 - Dyke at Nettlecombe Farm, Melcombe Horsey

Tatler, S and Bellamy, P, 2008, Highdon House, Melcombe Horsey, Dorset. Archaeological Observations and Recording (Unpublished document). SDO10646.

Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, 2011, Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society for 2010, 158 (Serial). SDO14017.

<1> Royal Commission on Historic Monuments, 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume III (Central) Part 2, 175 (Monograph). SDO136.

'(17) Dyke (74330165–74720160), lies on ground falling gently S. at the S. end of Hog Hill. The dyke is almost certainly built on the line of 'Celtic' field lynchets and this probably explains its two stretches, set almost at right angles to one another. From a point about 80 yds. S. of the settlement (II), the dyke runs S.E. for 270 yds. and then turns N.E. for a further 200 yds. The ditch, which lies on the uphill side, is 18 ft. across; the bank is 24 ft. across, 5 ft. high above the ditch and nearly 7 ft. high on the downhill side. At each end the dyke terminates at a valley-head. The N.W. end has been destroyed by a quarry but the line is roughly marked by a lynchet 7½ ft. high.'

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