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Linear Earthworks: Methods of Field Survey

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 January 2012

Cyril Fox,
B. H. St. J. O'Neil and
W. F. Grimes
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The Council has decided that the study (primarily the survey) of boundary dykes and defensive linear earthworks shall be the major scheme of research to be sponsored by the Society. It is desirable that reports intended for publication by those workers who will take part in this research shall be prepared on agreed lines, in order to facilitate comparative study of the diverse material thus gathered; it will be appreciated (to take only one point) that a dyke is an engineering work usually of well-defined technical character, and that undated constructions may prove amenable to grouping in known schools (such as the Western Mercian) or in recognized culture periods.

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The Antiquaries Journal , Volume 26 , Issue 3-4 , October 1946, pp. 175 - 179
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Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1946

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page 175 note 1 Definitely rounded ends might be used for deliberate breaks, square ends for accidents.

page 176 note 1 A Sir Rhŷs, John Memorial Lecture, ‘The Boundary Line of Cymru’, Proceedings, British Academy, vol. xxvi, 1940Google Scholar, forms a convenient summary of, and therefore introduction to, this series of papers.

page 178 note 1 It is important that the method should be tested by future investigators. Its validity cannot be deemed proven until other field-workers have used it successfully (C.F.). See O.D. iv, pp. 55–9 and fig. 26; O.D. v, pp. 49–50, 61–2, 70, figs. 25b and 26; O.D. vi, pp. 52–6; W.D., pp. 267–70, and maps, figs. 25, 26, 27.

page 179 note 1 Success was obtained in a recent survey though no settlement was known: see ‘A Linear Earthwork on Greenham Common, Berks.’, Arch. Journ., 1943, pp. 177Google Scholar.