Grim's Ditch, Dorset and Wiltshire
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Grim's Ditch is an early earthwork, in a discontinuous ring enclosing an area of 16 square miles in Wiltshire and along its border with Dorset. The work runs for about 14 miles, and joins on the Dorset border a more substantial earthwork known as Bokerley Dyke.
It is a and is a double-banked structure with a ditch between the banks. The Royal Commission's survey of a connected structure, Bokerley Dyke, disputed the idea that Grim's Ditch is a single monument, and suggested it was in at least three parts. English Heritage's monument scheduling suggests that Grim's Ditch may be of Bronze Age or Early Iron Age date.[1]
Location
- Location map: 50°59’50"N, 1°55’21"W
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