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Devil's Ditch is a linear earthwork running east from Chichester Main Road to Pook Lane in Sussex, England. This 210-metre stretch forms part of a larger defensive or territorial boundary system of Iron Age or Romano-British date. The monument survives as a substantial ditch with associated banks, representing a significant landscape feature of its period. Such linear earthworks were characteristic of prehistoric and Romano-British settlement systems and likely served practical functions relating to land division, stock management, or territorial demarcation.
A 210m length of Devil's Ditch running east from Chichester Main Road to Pook Lane is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1005877. View the official record →
Devil's Ditch is a linear earthwork running east from Chichester Main Road to Pook Lane in Sussex, England. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1005877.
A 210m length of Devil's Ditch running east from Chichester Main Road to Pook Lane is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, legally protected by Historic England (NHLE) — the body responsible for designating and safeguarding heritage sites in England. The official designation reference is 1005877.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Chichester Dyke, earthwork E of Chichester Barracks extending 600yds (550m) (1.7 km), Chichester Dyke, Broyle earthwork, section extending 430yds (393m) through East Broyle Copse, to railway, and earthwork extending 400yds (365m) from Brandy Hole Lane, New Fishbourne (1.7 km), Chichester Dyke, earthwork extending N 360yds (330m) from Otter Memorial College (2.3 km).
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