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Rise Dikes is a prehistoric linear boundary monument located in Wykeham Forest, North Yorkshire. The monument comprises a substantial earthwork consisting of banks and ditches that form part of a larger system of ancient field divisions and territorial demarcation, with characteristic hollow ways intersecting the main linear feature. The site dates to the prehistoric period, reflecting the Bronze Age or Iron Age organisation of the landscape. The physical remains survive as upstanding earthwork features that constitute significant evidence of early land management and settlement hierarchy in the North Yorkshire uplands.
Northern section of prehistoric linear boundary with intersecting hollow ways, known as Rise Dikes, in Wykeham Forest is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1019368. View the official record →
Rise Dikes is a prehistoric linear boundary monument located in Wykeham Forest, North Yorkshire. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1019368.
Northern section of prehistoric linear boundary with intersecting hollow ways, known as Rise Dikes, in Wykeham Forest 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 1019368.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Northern of two round barrows known as Row Howes, 640m south east of East Moor Farm (1.4 km), Southern of two round barrows known as Row Howes, 680m south east of East Moor Farm (1.5 km), Prehistoric linear boundary and associated features including a medieval monastic grange, north, east and south east of Moorsome Farm (3.3 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Northern section of prehistoric linear boundary with intersecting hollow ways, known as Rise Dikes, in Wykeham Forest'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.
Northern section of prehistoric linear boundary with intersecting hollow ways, known as Rise Dikes, in Wykeham Forest stands on Corallian Group, bedrock that formed in the Oxfordian. The rock here is limestone, sandstone, siltstone and mudstone.