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<< Our Photo Pages >> Beech Bottom Dyke - Ancient Village or Settlement in England in Hertfordshire

Submitted by vicky on Tuesday, 31 August 2004  Page Views: 14717

Multi-periodSite Name: Beech Bottom Dyke
Country: England
NOTE: This site is 0.6 km away from the location you searched for.
County: Hertfordshire Type: Ancient Village or Settlement

Map Ref: TL155093  Landranger Map Number: 166
Latitude: 51.770469N  Longitude: 0.327509W
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
 4 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
 no data Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
0No data.
 4 Accuracy:
5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
0no data
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Beech Bottom Dyke
Beech Bottom Dyke submitted by paulwilliams : Partly overgrown but still shows some of its size. The ditch is still some 5 metres deep, and missed by the general public thank goodness. (Vote or comment on this photo)
Misc Earthwork in Hertfordshire

Running behind modern houses in St Albans, this earthwork is thought to have originally joined up with the Devil's Dyke to create a defensive earthwork running from the River Lea to the River Ver.

The site can be seen from across the road from the Ancient Briton pub, although this end is a bit of a dumping ground for the local youth population.

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Re: Beech Bottom Dyke by Anonymous on Friday, 04 July 2008
Very impressive and largely a hidden treasure-worth a walk along its course-it'll take a leisurely 10 minutes.

Marvel at the depth of the dyke-40-50 feet deep in places.

An important defensive structure reputedly built by the Cattavelauni tribe and still used as late as the War of the Roses-where it formed part of the line of the Yorkists in the 2nd Battle of St Albans.

Have a pint in the Ancient Briton afterwards-although a Harvester, still you can get Well's Bombadier in there!
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Re: Beech Bottom Dyke by Anonymous on Thursday, 24 August 2006
the scale of the earthworks is staggering, to think that they built this without machinery is impressive. It is even more impressive that it linked up to the earthworks at Wheathampstead over three miles away.
It is worth a walk along it even though it has been abused by fly tipping.
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    Re: Beech Bottom Dyke by Anonymous on Monday, 12 November 2007
    Aye..it is impressive isn't it, and to think that we have such a huge construction under our very noses being used, abused and largely ignored by all including St.Albans council (though the council are of course excluded from use and abuse!)
    It has never ceased to amaze me just how unpromoted St.Albans actually is from an archaeological/historical perspective.
    We see the obligatory low key brown signs posted along most main entry routes to the city...but little else!
    St.Albans is a buried celebration of pre roman, roman and post roman british development...and all we see are modest signs beside the road unlikely to tip anyone off beyond the historically/archaeologically aware !!
    In a recent climate whereby Channel 4's 'Time Team' brought archaeology into fashionable awareness, shouldn't those who serve St.Albans interests have cashed in on the fad and highlighted the city's importance in this respect whilst the going was good?
    It isn't too late of course...the ole' city's place in the overall scheme of historical things can still be maxed up to best advantage with, of course, a little planning and imagination on the part of they who're paid to take care of Snorban's interests.

    Rivergypsy (Ex-pat of St.A)
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      Re: Beech Bottom Dyke by Anonymous on Tuesday, 22 April 2008
      i agree, the council cant even be bothered to tidy up the site or manage the trees properly. it is true st.albans has a rich historical past that is not celebrated. it was an important pre-roman town, an important roman town is the site of the first christian martyr of england. the land owners who farm the site of verulanium were until recently quite happily ploughing up the foundations.
      oh sorry we have a state of the art toilet block that houses the hypocaust remains.
      come back boudicca all is forgiven!!

      mezza
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        Re: Beech Bottom Dyke by Anonymous on Thursday, 30 October 2014
        Thing she is leicester way .... apparently... lol.
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Re: Beech Bottom Dyke by JimChampion on Tuesday, 29 March 2005
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The Ancient Briton pub is in fact now a 'Harvester' restaurant... is the pub name anything to do with the earthwork built by ancient "Britons" that is just over the road? I was in there on Sunday, but the staff there didn't have any answers.
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    Re: Beech Bottom Dyke by Anonymous on Monday, 02 May 2005
    I worked and lived in "Harvester"/the Ancient Briton in 1979 -80 , The publican didn't mention anything of historical importance .
    I was just searching the name. Please ignore this if of no interest.
    I was on a working holiday from Brisbane Australia in 1979.
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    Re: Beech Bottom Dyke by Anonymous on Sunday, 20 August 2006
    I now live opposite this site and for me it is a very special place that has its own distinctive energies. (I'm a Druid and interested in this sort of thing!). One side of the Dyke has a distinctly different energy from the other strangely enough (on the valley road to railway section). It is known pretty much only to locals, but there are a couple of old signs up about its history. It was built in the iron age by the Catuvellauni tribe, possibly defensive in nature, but another theory is it was to keep travelling tradesmen from trapsing through the settlement. At that time St Albans, (then Verlamion), was one of the main trading centres for the Celtic Britons. A small part of it near the Ancient Briton pub was excavated by Sir Mortimer Wheeler in the 1930s.
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