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The Casten Dike is a section of the Cleave Dyke system, an extensive linear earthwork of Iron Age date located in Yorkshire. The dyke comprises a substantial bank and ditch formation typical of territorial or defensive boundaries constructed during the pre-Roman Iron Age period. Associated with this linear monument is a round barrow situated south of Kilburn Moor Plantation, representing a Bronze Age burial mound that predates the dyke system by several centuries. Together these monuments document successive phases of land use and settlement organisation across the Yorkshire landscape from the Bronze Age through to the Iron Age.
Two sections of the Cleave Dyke system, one known as the Casten Dike, and a round barrow south of Kilburn Moor Plantation is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1012992. View the official record →
The Casten Dike is a section of the Cleave Dyke system, an extensive linear earthwork of Iron Age date located in Yorkshire. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1012992.
Two sections of the Cleave Dyke system, one known as the Casten Dike, and a round barrow south of Kilburn Moor Plantation 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 1012992.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Byland Abbey Cistercian monastery: monastic precinct, water-management earthworks, enclosures, ancillary buildings and quarries (4.8 km), Long Grain round barrows (5 km), Section of cross ridge dyke and earthworks in Roman Plantation, Oulston Moor (9.1 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Two sections of the Cleave Dyke system, one known as the Casten Dike, and a round barrow south of Kilburn Moor Plantation'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.
Two sections of the Cleave Dyke system, one known as the Casten Dike, and a round barrow south of Kilburn Moor Plantation stands on Corallian Group, bedrock that formed in the Oxfordian. The rock here is limestone, sandstone, siltstone and mudstone.