Wolstonbury Cross Ridge Dyke

This linear earthwork appears to be one of the later prehistoric linear boundaries recorded from the southern chalklands. What exactly their purpose was has regularly defied interpretation. They have variously been referred to as; roads, defensive outworks, covered ways, barriers, toll bars or drove ways, ‘Celtic’ fields, ranch boundaries or pastoral enclosures. Even precise terminology is difficult. (I am using ‘Dyke’ on TMA for want of a better site type, but please do not take this as an implication of function.)