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Iron Age and Later PrehistorySite Name: Dane's DykeCountry: England
NOTE: This site is 2.1 km away from the location you searched for.
County: Yorkshire (East) Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Nearest Town: Bridlington Nearest Village: Flamborough
Map Ref: TA21317115
Latitude: 54.121908N Longitude: 0.14536W
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 |
| 0 | No data. |
| 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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lauraaurora visited on 22nd Mar 2022 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 5 Access: 4
SumDoood visited on 2nd Mar 2017 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 4 Access: 5 Well worth a look. The structure is 4.5kms long and very complete.
drolaf have visited here
Average ratings for this site from all visit loggers: Condition: 3 Ambience: 4.5 Access: 4.5
The V shaped cross-section of the main ditch makes this a very significant barrier to passage, as much as the high banks.
The banks and ditches vary through its length, sometimes single bank, up to three banks, height up to 12m and similar ditches. The Northern end is human made, a single high bank around 3m high and a steep ditch around 2m deep. The south end is a deep ravine formed by a seasonal river in chalk, and artificially enhanced. There is a high bank to the east of the beck dyke with deep ditch between.
The south end chalk cliff beach is full of chalk fossils. Water runs straight off and out of the chalk cliff and also out of the higher beach sand, so there is a plenteous fresh water source.
Visiting is easy as there is a carpark (£2.90 all day). It is not too crowded by tourists even on a Sunday, and there are nice grass overflow fields. A mixture of families and fossil hunters. Most people don’t go far from the small cafe and toilets.
This is an amazing place to get a feel for what people built over 3000 years ago. As Richard Bradley said, actually the agricultural earthworks of Bronze Age Britain were as much an engineering endeavour as the monuments of the Neolithic.
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