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<< Our Photo Pages >> Perry's Grove Boundary Ditch - Misc. Earthwork in England in Hertfordshire

Submitted by Iain_P on Sunday, 02 July 2017  Page Views: 1683

Multi-periodSite Name: Perry's Grove Boundary Ditch Alternative Name: Linear earthwork in Perry's Grove
Country: England
NOTE: This site is 3.8 km away from the location you searched for.

County: Hertfordshire Type: Misc. Earthwork
Nearest Town: Welwyn Garden City  Nearest Village: Burnham Green
Map Ref: TL25851700
Latitude: 51.837436N  Longitude: 0.174797W
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
3 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
4 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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Perry's Grove Boundary Ditch
Perry's Grove Boundary Ditch submitted by Iain_P : Another of the ditch (Vote or comment on this photo)
Misc. Earthwork in Hertfordshire

This Late Iron Age boundary ditch is real hidden gem, and easily accessible by walking a short distance along the footpath off White Horse Lane, coming out of the village of Burnham Green.

I parked on the steep bank just opposite the path on the lane. I'm not sure if that's an official parking space but it fitted my Fiesta nicely. It didn't seem to be a passing point, as it was too steep, and there's an official passing place just beyond it.
I wasn't expecting much from this site, but was pleasantly surprised to enter the copse at the southern edge of the remains of the ditch and see a really quite large and impressive bank and ditch stretching into the distance.

Pastscape (Monument No. 364776) describes it as a Belgic boundary ditch:

"A strongly constructed bank and ditch oriented
north west - south east across a high ridge spur and ideally
positioned for either defence or concealment; the ditch attains
a maximum depth of 2.4m with the, now spread, western bank a maximum
height of 1.1m [...] The strength and engineering likens the feature to other proved
Belgic works in this area and it is almost certainly of the
same period, now situated in an established copse. The siting of the bank on the W or lower side seems curious. The earthwork originally extended further N (and probably S as well), its current survival being conditioned by the extent of managed woodland."

There is a central break in the ditch which,according to Pastscape,
may or may not be original.

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Perry's Grove Boundary Ditch
Perry's Grove Boundary Ditch submitted by Iain_P : The bank. It's big! (Vote or comment on this photo)

Perry's Grove Boundary Ditch
Perry's Grove Boundary Ditch submitted by Iain_P : It's hard to capture in a photograph, but hopefully this composite will convey something of the size and scale of the ditch and bank (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Nearby Images from Geograph Britain and Ireland:
TL2617 : Burnham Green: White Horse Lane (flooded) by Nigel Cox
by Nigel Cox
©2009(licence)
TL2616 : Car Travelling down White Horse Lane, Burnham Green, Hertfordshire by Christine Matthews
by Christine Matthews
©2012(licence)
TL2616 : Fields by White Horse Lane, Burnham Green by David Howard
by David Howard
©2021(licence)
TL2616 : Field by White Horse Lane, Burnham Green by David Howard
by David Howard
©2021(licence)
TL2616 : Oilseed Rape, Burnham Green, Hertfordshire by Christine Matthews
by Christine Matthews
©2012(licence)

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