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Section of the Cleave Dyke system 200m south east of Yorkshire Gliding Club is a linear earthwork of Iron Age date located in Yorkshire. The monument forms part of the Cleave Dyke system, a substantial defended linear boundary comprising a bank and ditch construction characteristic of Iron Age territorial demarcation in northern Britain. This particular section preserves evidence of the dyke's characteristic morphology, representing part of a wider network of such earthworks that served both defensive and administrative functions during the Iron Age period. The site's survival and scheduled status reflect its importance as archaeological evidence of Iron Age settlement patterns and landscape organisation in Yorkshire.
Section of the Cleave Dyke system 200m south east of Yorkshire Gliding Club is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1012993. View the official record →
Section of the Cleave Dyke system 200m south east of Yorkshire Gliding Club is a linear earthwork of Iron Age date located in Yorkshire. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1012993.
Section of the Cleave Dyke system 200m south east of Yorkshire Gliding Club 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 1012993.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Byland Abbey Cistercian monastery: monastic precinct, water-management earthworks, enclosures, ancillary buildings and quarries (3.9 km), Long Grain round barrows (4.5 km), Section of cross ridge dyke and earthworks in Roman Plantation, Oulston Moor (8.1 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Section of the Cleave Dyke system 200m south east of Yorkshire Gliding Club'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.
Section of the Cleave Dyke system 200m south east of Yorkshire Gliding Club stands on Kellaways Formation And Oxford Clay Formation (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Oxfordian. The rock here is mudstone, siltstone and sandstone.