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Cross ridge dyke extending north and south of The Three Horse Shoes Inn is a linear earthwork of Iron Age date located in Devon. The monument consists of a substantial bank and ditch running across the landscape, forming a defensive or boundary feature typical of prehistoric settlement patterns in the region. Such cross ridge dykes functioned variously as territorial markers, stock enclosures, or defensive works associated with the Iron Age communities that inhabited Devon during the first millennium before Christ. The dyke's preservation in the modern landscape, despite agricultural activity over two millennia, attests to the substantial nature of its original construction.
Cross ridge dyke extending north and south of The Three Horse Shoes Inn is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1017771. View the official record →
Cross ridge dyke extending north and south of The Three Horse Shoes Inn is a linear earthwork of Iron Age date located in Devon. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1017771.
Cross ridge dyke extending north and south of The Three Horse Shoes Inn 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 1017771.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Blackbury Castle hillfort (1.1 km), Bowl barrow at Bovey Fir Cross, 500m south of Bovey House (2.5 km), Prehistoric field system on the cliffs above Littlecombe Shoot (3.1 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Cross ridge dyke extending north and south of The Three Horse Shoes Inn's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
Every location is different. Not every section appears for every place, only what the historical record actually holds turns up in a report.
Cross ridge dyke extending north and south of The Three Horse Shoes Inn stands on Gault Formation And Upper Greensand Formation (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Cenomanian. The rock here is mudstone, sandstone and limestone.