Monument record MDO42773 - Cross dyke, Blandford Camp, Tarrant Monkton

A linear earthwork near the entrance to Blandford Camp. Excavations by AC archaeology in 1993 showed that only the ditch survived. They recorded a row of post holes parallel to and probably contemporary with the ditch.

DYKE, on the S.W. edge of Blandford Camp, runs W.N.W. to E.S.E. 91240755-91410752 for some 200 yds. The W. end lies in Langton Long Blandford and it has been much disturbed by tracks and roads an by trees growing on it. The bank is 12 ft. across and up to 1 1.2 ft. high with a ditch on its N.side 12 ft. across and 2 ft. deep. Visible on air photographs. <1-2>

<1> Royal Air Force, 22-JAN-1948, RAF/CPE/UK/2431 4320-1 (Aerial Photograph). SDO19222.

<2> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1972, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume IV (North), 109-110 (Monograph). SDO99.

'(21) Dyke, on the S.W. edge of Blandford Camp, runs W.N.W. to E.S.E. (91240755–91410752) for some 200 yds. across the top of a N.-S. Chalk ridge, at over 350 ft. above O.D. The W. end lies in Langton Long Blandford and it has been much disturbed by tracks and roads and by trees growing on it. The bank is 12 ft. across and up to 1½ ft. high with a ditch on its N. side 12 ft. across and 2 ft. deep.'

<3> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey 1:10,000 scale map, 1976 (Map). SDO17396.

(ST 91220754-ST 91410751) Cross Dyke (NR)

<4> Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, 1994, Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society for 1993, 147 (Serial). SDO93.

<5> National Record of the Historic Environment, 209350 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Jan 23 2023 4:31PM