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Section of single linear boundary dyke east of York Lane, south east of Farclose Plantation

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Heritage Category:: Scheduled Monument
List Entry Number:: 1015564
Date first listed:: 17-Dec-1929

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Scheduled Monument
List Entry Number:: 1015564
Date first listed:: 17-Dec-1929
Date of most recent amendment:: 17-Apr-1997

Location

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: East Riding of Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Huggate
National Grid Reference:: SE 86422 56096

Reasons for Designation

Linear boundaries are substantial earthwork features comprising single or multiple ditches and banks which may extend over distances varying between less than 1km to over 10km. They survive as earthworks or as linear features visible as cropmarks on aerial photographs or as a combination of both. The evidence of excavation and study of associated monuments demonstrate that their construction spans the millennium from the Middle Bronze Age, although they may have been re-used later. The scale of many linear boundaries has been taken to indicate that they were constructed by large social groups and were used to mark important boundaries in the landscape; their impressive scale displaying the corporate prestige of their builders. They would have been powerful symbols, often with religious associations, used to define and order the territorial holdings of those groups who constructed them. Linear earthworks are of considerable importance for the analysis of settlement and land use in the Bronze Age; all well preserved examples will normally merit statutory protection.

The monument is part of a very extensive and important system of linear boundary dykes in this area of the Yorkshire Wolds, dating back to the Bronze Age. It is closely associated with other adjacent complexes of linear banks and ditches, which together form an integral system of boundary and defensive earthworks in this region. As such it offers important insights into ancient land use and territorial divisions for social, ritual and agricultural purposes in this area of the Yorkshire Wolds.

Details

The monument includes a 200m long section of Bronze Age linear boundary bank and ditch (also known as a dyke) lying east of York Lane and on the north east side of Huggate Pasture, at the head of Horse Dale. Lying close to the ancient trackway on the western side of the Wolds, the surviving part of which forms the present-day Wolds Way, the monument is a relatively short section of single linear bank and ditch located approximately at a midpoint between two more elaborate complexes of dykes - one further to the west along Huggate Pasture in Frendal Dale and at its junction with Tun Dale, and the other to the east at the junction of the three dry valleys of Horse Dale, Holm Dale and Harper Dale. This short section of dyke is not a discrete monument, as neither its eastern or western ends are thought to have been original termini, but are believed to have once formed a continuous length of boundary banks and ditches linking the eastern and western complexes described above. These dykes were used to enhance the natural topographical barriers of spurs and escarpments between valleys, with additional physical barriers of banks and ditches. Natural conduits through the floors of dry valleys were then `blocked' by other bank and ditch systems acting to control access. Well preserved sections of these linear boundaries are the subject of separate schedulings, and in some cases, adjacent monuments may physically touch. This elaborate complex of boundary earthworks is one of the best preserved remnants of the original more extensive systems recorded and mapped as extending across large areas of the Wolds by early antiquarians such as J R Mortimer in the 19th century. Excavations and observation of spatial relationships with other earthworks of known date demonstrate this Wolds complex of earthworks to have originated in the later Bronze Age, with several subsequent phases of elaboration and augmentation. The monument also forms part of a broadly related and extensive complex of multi-period prehistoric earthworks, including bowl barrows, barrow cemeteries, linear bank and ditch systems, trackways and enclosures dispersed across Huggate and Warter Wolds, and Huggate and Millington Pastures. The monument includes a low bank up to 3m wide and about 1m in height, with a ditch on its southern side which is now infilled and overlain by a modern field boundary and hedge. The modern post and wire fencing and the part of the surface of the paved road which impinges upon the area of the scheduling to the west are excluded from the scheduling, although the ground beneath these features is included.

MAP EXTRACT The site of the monument is shown on the attached map extract. It includes a 2 metre boundary around the archaeological features, considered to be essential for the monument's support and preservation.

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 26579
Legacy System:: RSM

Sources

Books and journals
Mortimer, J R , Forty Years Researches in British and Saxon Burial Mounds of East Yorkshire, (1905), 365-380
Dent, J, 'Archaeological Journal' in The Yorkshire Dykes, , Vol. 141, (1984), 32-33
Halkon, P, 'Prehistory Research Section Bulletin' in The Huggate Dykes, , Vol. 30, (1993), 10
Manby, T, 'Current Archaeology' in The Yorkshire Dykes, , Vol. 67, (1979), 233
Other
Humberside SMR, Sites and Monuments Record Sheets, (1994)

Legal

This monument is scheduled under the Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Areas Act 1979 as amended as it appears to the Secretary of State to be of national importance. This entry is a copy, the original is held by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport.