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The line of bridleway BSJO7 has been altered from that mapped to run along the side of this cross dyke, one of several in the area. "Current information favours the view that they were used as territorial boundary markers, probably demarcating land allotment within communities, although they may also have been used as trackways, cattle droveways or defensive earthworks. Cross-dykes are one of the few monument types which illustrate how land was divided up in the prehistoric period" Link . See also Link , which suggests it could be Romano-British.