Monument record MDO831 - Cross dyke on Lyscombe Hill, Cheselbourne

Earthwork bank- and ditch cross-dyke aligned south west to north east, with its ditch on the uphill side of the bank. The line of the dyke is continuednorth east on a different alignment by a slight bank on a scarp, while to the south west it is continued for 40 yards as a lynchet with a slight bank on it, then as a scarp for 230 yards.

ST 73050113 to ST 73280138. The earthwork can be traced for a further 60.0m to the southwest as a low scarp but is otherwise as described by RCHM <1>. It remains in a generally good state of preservation, though vegetation covered.

Surveyed at 1:2500 on MSD in conjunction with RCHM plan. <2>

<1> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume III (Central) Part 1, 78 (Monograph). SDO146.

‘(23) CROSS-DYKE, running S.W.–N.E. (73180124–73260137), some 400 yds. S.E. of (22), across the head of a gulley near the S.E. end of the spur, is 210 yds. long and has its ditch on the uphill side, beyond which is a very slight bank, probably a copse boundary. The bank is 30 ft. across, 8 ft. high on the S. and 3 ft. high above the ditch, which is 30 ft. across. The line of the dyke is continued N.E. on a different alignment by a slight bank on a scarp, while to the S.W. it is continued for 40 yds. as a lynchet with a slight bank on it, then as a scarp for 230 yds. to meet the angle of an enclosure, Piddletrenthide (65), now destroyed.’

<2> Barrett, G, Various, Field Investigators Comments GB, F1 GB 04-NOV-78 (Unpublished document). SDO17369.

<3> National Record of the Historic Environment, 202085 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Jan 24 2022 12:35PM