An ancient landscape
Bokerley Dyke is the high bank along the right edge of the photo. It is sometimes known as Bokerley Ditch as can be seen running through the centre of the scene from bottom to top. The structure is a linear earthwork 5.75 kilometres or 3 1/2 miles long, some of which still forms the Dorset and Hampshire border. It is thought to have originated in the Bronze or Early Iron Age when it will probably have formed a political and cultural boundary rather like the later Hadrian's Wall from the Roman era.
The person on the left gives scale.
An ancient landscape
Bokerley Dyke is the high bank along the right edge of the photo. It is sometimes known as Bokerley Ditch as can be seen running through the centre of the scene from bottom to top. The structure is a linear earthwork 5.75 kilometres or 3 1/2 miles long, some of which still forms the Dorset and Hampshire border. It is thought to have originated in the Bronze or Early Iron Age when it will probably have formed a political and cultural boundary rather like the later Hadrian's Wall from the Roman era.
The person on the left gives scale.