Monument record MDO38407 - Undated bank, possible cross dyke, Eype Down, Symondsbury

A linear banked feature is visible as earthworks on aerial photographs and lidar imagery on Eype Down. It runs roughly east-west for 62m across the ridge of the Down. It is of uncertain date and may be of prehistoric or historic origin. The site was digitally plotted during the Marshwood Vale NMP.

SY 438 925. A cross-ridge bank cuts across the Northern spur of Eype Down. It is 80 yards long, 45 feet wide and 3 feet high terminated in the West by a deep hollow way and in the East by a later gravel bank. <1>

A linear banked feature is visible as earthworks on aerial photographs and lidar imagery on Eype Down <2-3>. It runs roughly east-west for 62m across the ridge of the Down. It is of uncertain date and may be of prehistoric cross dyke or of historic origin. The site was digitally plotted during the Marshwood Vale NMP.

<1> Royal Commission on Historic Monuments, Unpublished revision RCHME Dorset I (West) Undated (Symondsbury file) (Unpublished document). SWX1370.

<2> Royal Air Force, 22-JAN-1948, RAF/CPE/UK/2431 RP 3168-9 (Aerial Photograph). SDO14702.

<3> Environment Agency, 2010, Lidar DSM, sy4392_dtm_1m.asc (Aerial Photograph). SDO13147.

<4> National Record of the Historic Environment, 866789 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Dec 23 2022 6:39PM