Monument record MDO43582 - Dyke, Bryanston

A linear earthwork described as a 'dyke' on the 1929 Ordnance Survey map. Field investigations suggest that it is of doubtful antiquity, possibly a relatively modern enclosure or plantation boundary.

This feature consists of an earth bank averaging 3.0m wide and 0.5m. high, with unsurveyable traces of a ditch on the east side of the bank. The bank is mutilated in places and heavily overgrown with brambles. 1.5m. to the west of the bank there is a modern hedge, parallel to both road and bank. Between ST 84750580 and ST 84610610 the ditch is visible and averages 1.7m. Wide and 0.3m. Deep.

The earthwork seems a doubtful antiquity, it runs with the ridge and is parallel to the parish boundary.

There is a strong possibility that it is no more than an enclosure or plantation boundary. <2>

<1> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1929 (Map). SWX1540.

(ST 84800545-ST 84610610) Dyke (NR)

<2> Quinnell, N V, Various, Field Investigators Comments NVQ, F1 NVQ 02-SEP-55 (Unpublished document). SDO11903.

<3> National Record of the Historic Environment, 205588 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Jun 30 2022 3:19PM