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Defences against Cattle-Raiding

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

G. W. B. Huntingford
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When I suggested, in commenting on this quotation, that an African cattle-thief would laugh at Beech Bottom dyke, Mr Crawford did not agree; and the idea that seems to prevail with regard to the stopping-power of a ditch and bank is responsible for these notes.

Cattle-defences may be considered under two heads: 1, Fences: 2, Dykes: the latter being actually of secondary importance when the object in view is to keep cattle in or out; and stockades without a ditch do occur in Britain.

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Antiquity , Volume 8 , Issue 32 , December 1934 , pp. 429 - 436
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd 1934

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5 Pliny, describing the growth of the fig-tree (apparently in India) describes a live hedge used as a cattle-fold : ‘intra saepem earn [ficum] aestivant pastores, opacam pariter et munitam vallo arboris (=with a ‘vallum’ of tree), decora specie subter intuenti proculve fornicato (=arched) ambitu’. (N.H. XII, II.)

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