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The Bake and Wylye Down milestones are a pair of sarsen stones located on the Salisbury to Shaftesbury road in Wiltshire. These boundary markers date to the medieval period and served to demarcate the limits of local parishes or manorial jurisdictions. The stones represent the practical infrastructure of medieval land administration, marking territorial boundaries that would have been recognised and maintained by local communities. Such milestone markers were common features of the medieval English landscape, particularly along major routes and at significant territorial junctions.
The Bake and Wylye Down milestones is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1005598. View the official record →
The Bake and Wylye Down milestones are a pair of sarsen stones located on the Salisbury to Shaftesbury road in Wiltshire. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1005598.
The Bake and Wylye Down milestones 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 1005598.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Two chalk military badges 380m and 550m west of Sheep Well (8 km), Buxbury round barrow, Buxbury Hill (8.1 km), Cross-ridge dyke on Buxbury Hill (8.4 km).
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