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Cross Dyke on Steep Down is a linear earthwork located on the South Downs near Beggars Bush in Sussex. The monument consists of a substantial ditch with an accompanying bank, characteristic of Iron Age defensive or territorial boundaries constructed across downland. The dyke's precise chronology remains uncertain, though similar linear earthworks in the region are typically attributed to the Iron Age period, when such features may have served to control movement across the landscape or mark territorial divisions. The monument survives as an upstanding earthwork and represents an important example of prehistoric land management and settlement patterns on the Sussex Downs.
Cross dyke on Steep Down, 700m north east of Beggars Bush is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1018566. View the official record →
Cross Dyke on Steep Down is a linear earthwork located on the South Downs near Beggars Bush in Sussex. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1018566.
Cross dyke on Steep Down, 700m north east of Beggars Bush 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 1018566.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Cross dyke on Steep Down, 600m north east of Titch Hill Farm (0.7 km), Regular aggregate field system with prehistoric and Romano-British farmsteads and a Bronze Age bowl barrow on Park Brow (1.8 km), Cissbury Ring hillfort, prehistoric flint mine and associated remains (2.9 km).
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