Monument record MDO3518 - Dyke near Deadman's Coppice, Ashmore

A prehistoric earthwork dyke some one hundred and fifty metres long, aligned south west to north east. The south-western end of the dyke lies within Deadman's Coppice where it survives as a shallow ditch and bank, the latter standing approximately half a metre high in 1972. Elsewhere the monument has been reduced or levelled by ploughing, and damaged by trackways.

National Record of the Historic Environment, 209958 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

<1> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1972, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume IV (North), 3 (Monograph). SDO99.

'(15) DYKE (90721601-91071625) near Deadman's Coppice, 1 mile s. of the village, extends from S.W. to N.E. obliquely across a S-facing slope, between 550 ft. and 600 ft. above sea-level. It is some 480 yds long, but it has been almost entirely obliterated by cultivation and trackways, except at the S. W. end where, in Deadman's Coppice, it is well-preserved for a length of some 80 yds., comprising a bank 15 ft. across and 1½ ft. high, with a ditch 16 ft. across and 2 ft. deep on th N.W. side.'

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