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This linear earthwork running from the head of Warren Dale towards Sledmere Field Farm is a prehistoric or early historic boundary feature located in Yorkshire. The monument comprises a substantial bank and ditch alignment that served to demarcate land divisions or territorial boundaries across the landscape. Associated with the earthwork is a settlement site, indicating that this boundary feature formed part of a wider pattern of land organisation and habitation in the area. The precise dating of the monument remains uncertain, though its morphology and association with settlement activity suggest it may belong to the Iron Age or Romano-British period.
Linear earthwork running from the head of Warren Dale towards Sledmere Field Farm and associated settlement site is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1007736. View the official record →
This linear earthwork running from the head of Warren Dale towards Sledmere Field Farm is a prehistoric or early historic boundary feature located in Yorkshire. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1007736.
Linear earthwork running from the head of Warren Dale towards Sledmere Field Farm and associated settlement site 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 1007736.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Site of deserted village of Eastburn (7.2 km), Site of deserted village of Sunderlandwick (8.7 km), Three round barrows in North Dalton village (9.4 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Linear earthwork running from the head of Warren Dale towards Sledmere Field Farm and associated settlement site'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.
Linear earthwork running from the head of Warren Dale towards Sledmere Field Farm and associated settlement site stands on White Chalk Subgroup, bedrock that formed in the Maastrichtian. The rock here is chalk.