Monument record MDO5022 - Linear dyke, Tarrant Keyneston

Linear dyke extending from Luton Down in Tarrant Monkton to a point south west of Buzbury Rings, in Langton Long Blandford parish. Its best preserved length comprises a ditch flanked by low spread banks and elsewhere it is ploughed out. At its southern end it is, bounded on both sides by contemporary or later 'Celtic' fields. The record for this monument has been enhanced with support from Wessex Water. The linear earthwork is visible as earthworks and cropmarks on aerial photographs and Environment Agency lidar imagery and was digitally plotted during the Dorset Middle Stour AIM Project.

A linear dyke, traceable for some 2,000 yds, extends from Luton Down in Tarrant Monkton (ST 921071) to point 800 yds SW of BUzbury Rings in Langton Long Blandford (ST 912055). Its S half is roughly parallel with the linear dyke (ST 90 NW 32). NE of the Blandford to Wimborne Road, the dyke consists of a ditch 25 ft across and 3 ft deep, flanked by low spread banks. SW of Buzbury Plantation it is marked only by a scarp on the hillside, bounded on both sides by contemporary or later 'Celtic' fields. <2> The linear dyke south-west of ST 91620620 has been destroyed by ploughing. <3> The linear earthwork is visible as earthworks and cropmarks on aerial photographs and Environment Agency lidar imagery [5 - 7]. It comprises an inner ditch and outer banks and extends for almost 2km on a southwest -northeast alignment. Two perpendicular sections of ditched and banked earthworks extend from the east side of the linear earthwork towards the northwest side of Buzbury Rings (MDO5018), where they abut/adjoin the outer earthworks of this monument - these might be short cross dykes associated with the main linear earthwork/dyke, although they appear cohesive with the main feature. The feature was digitally plotted during the Dorset Middle Stour AIM Project.

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Oct 16 2023 10:00AM