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Length of Grim's Ditch immediately east of Barrowby Road is a linear earthwork monument located in Yorkshire. Grim's Ditch forms part of a wider system of defensive or territorial boundaries that extend across the landscape, characteristic of Iron Age or Romano-British period engineering. The ditch itself represents a substantial linear excavation, likely serving to demarcate land divisions or provide defensive capability during prehistory or the Roman period. Such monuments are important sources of evidence for understanding settlement patterns, land management, and territorial organization in ancient Britain.
Length of Grim's Ditch immediately east of Barrowby Road is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1018795. View the official record →
Length of Grim's Ditch immediately east of Barrowby Road is a linear earthwork monument located in Yorkshire. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1018795.
Length of Grim's Ditch immediately east of Barrowby Road 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 1018795.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Length of Grim's Ditch 260m west of Brown Moor Farm (0.4 km), Length of Grim's Ditch from Cotton Road East to the A63, Colton Common (0.5 km), Length of Grim's Ditch extending 1.4km from a point 70m south of Cotton Road East to the south east corner of Avenue Wood (1.3 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Length of Grim's Ditch immediately east of Barrowby Road'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.
Length of Grim's Ditch immediately east of Barrowby Road stands on Pennine Middle Coal Measures Formation And South Wales Middle Coal Measures Formation (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Moscovian. The rock here is mudstone, siltstone, sandstone, coal, ironstone and ferricrete.