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Grim's Ditch immediately north of Gamblethorpe is a linear earthwork of Iron Age date located in Yorkshire. The monument consists of a substantial ditch with an associated bank, forming a linear defensive or boundary feature characteristic of the Iron Age period. The ditch runs across the landscape in this locality and represents the type of territorial or defensive work commonly constructed during the later prehistoric period in northern England. Such features frequently served as boundaries between territories or as defensive barriers, though the precise function of this particular example remains subject to archaeological interpretation.
Length of Grim's Ditch immediately north of Gamblethorpe is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1018791. View the official record →
Grim's Ditch immediately north of Gamblethorpe is a linear earthwork of Iron Age date located in Yorkshire. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1018791.
Length of Grim's Ditch immediately north of Gamblethorpe 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 1018791.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Length of Grim's Ditch partly under Bullerthorpe Lane 620m north of Gamblethorpe (0.6 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 (1.7 km), Shrunken medieval village of Colton (2.3 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Length of Grim's Ditch immediately north of Gamblethorpe'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 north of Gamblethorpe stands on Pennine Lower Coal Measures Formation And South Wales Lower Coal Measures Formation (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Westphalian. The rock here is mudstone, siltstone, sandstone, coal, ironstone and ferricrete.