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Multi-periodSite Name: Horton Common Earthworks Alternative Name: Redman's Hill DykeCountry: England
NOTE: This site is 1.518 km away from the location you searched for.
County: Dorset Type: Misc. Earthwork
Nearest Town: Verwood Nearest Village: Three legged Cross
Map Ref: SU075072
Latitude: 50.864259N Longitude: 1.894799W
Condition:
| 5 | Perfect |
| 4 | Almost Perfect |
| 3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
| 2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
| 1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
| 0 | No data. |
| -1 | Completely destroyed |
| 5 | Superb |
| 4 | Good |
| 3 | Ordinary |
| 2 | Not Good |
| 1 | Awful |
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| 5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
| 4 | Short walk on a footpath |
| 3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
| 2 | A long walk |
| 1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
| 0 | No data. |
| 5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
| 4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
| 3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
| 2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village |
| 1 | co-ordinates of the nearest town |
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A fascinating site of varied interests. The dyke complex consists of linear double banks and ditch. The full length of the dyke stretches some 650 metres, but is most visible and reasonably preserved in its south western end. Each bank measures some 15ft across, 2ft high either side of a ditch up to 14 ft wide and 3ft deep. The north eastern upper stretch from a tentative centre which is also more or less where the footpath cuts through, is shortly bisected by a railway cutting. It thence continues beyond the railway cutting, through a field where it is ploughed out and runs down to the river, where the dyke banks faintly reappear. The field and woods near to the river are private land.
The lower section, left from the tentative centre, is reasonably impressive for what it is, and is again bisected but by a deep hollow-way of later origin. Up along the hollow way, which can be follow with difficulty due to undergrowth, it cuts between two greatly degraded barrows. This hollow way can be followed a short way in both directions, and is also not unimpressive.
The area is somewhat wild and overgrown and the barrows emerge from the heather and furze with difficuty. Further, badgers are very active hereabouts, the ditch and banks having suffered greatly from their digging. It is they who have made the small narrow, but well worn footpaths, and at the upper end of the dyke near the railway cutting their digging spoil heaps have very nearly closed the ditch. The banks undulate into the ditch width correspondingly.
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