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A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… To the west the parish boundary partly follows the Devil's Ditch, a massive linear earthwork built probably by the early … 23 The earthwork gave Ditton its name, 'settlement by the ditch', distinguished by the prefix Wood from Fen Ditton some … 34 The clay plateau was densely wooded when the Devil's Ditch was constructed. 35 From Anglo-Saxon times much …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… variable sizes. 97 Among the more stable field names were Ditch, Church, and Down fields in Ditton Camoys, 98 and …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… depression in the N.W. of the site ('f'), with a broad ditch leading into its S.W. corner, is a fishpond. (RAF VAP …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… buildings on its S. Immediately to the S. a hollow-way or ditch up to 2 m. deep runs down the hillside but it is not … whether this is an original feature. To the S. of this ditch, in a field ploughed and returned to grass, are the …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… is stated to have been found here by his enemies, in a ditch under an ash-tree, which is inscribed with the various …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… slope of London Clay, about 140 ft. above O.D. It had no ditch and the material for it probably came from a shallow … is separated by a berm up to 12 ft. across from the inner ditch, which is up to 50 ft. across and 5 ft. deep. No … suggests that it has at some time been heightened. The ditch within the bank is up to 35 ft. wide and 4 ft. deep …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… field S. of the castle a surviving scarp has traces of a ditch below it. The present road S.E. of the castle cuts … ft. across stands up to 4 ft. high above a flat-bottomed ditch running N.W.S.E. which may have been a sunken road. … From the S.E. end of the possible sunken road another ditch or hollow-way ran S.W. on the line of the old stream …