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Car Dyke
Hob Uid: 1034844
Location : Lincolnshire North Kesteven Washingborough
Grid Ref : TF0266070680
Summary : Scheduled section of waterchannel traditionally thought to be a Roman canal but proved to be part of late 1st or 2nd century fen drainage system. Surviving earthwork surveyed at 25" scale.
More information : TF 0230 7078 - TF 0247 7071. Permanent pasture; slopes much mutilated, maximum height 1m. Indications of two later causeways. TF 0250 7070 - TF 0266 7068. Pasture; maximum depth of ditch, 1.2m. Surveyed at 25". (Original survey document available in Linear Archive File) TF 024 707. Car Dyke, Roman canal N of Washingborough. Scheduled. (1-3) The counterscarp of Car Dyke was visible as a cropmark and mapped from good quality air photographs. The interrupted sections of the bank are visible from TF 0217 7082 to TF 0435 7055. (Morph No. LI.536.1.1) This description is based on data from the RCHME MORPH2 database. (4)

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Source details : F R Harper/23-SEP-1964/Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Field Investigator
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Source details : English Heritage SAMs List - Lincolnshire. March 1994. 12.
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Source details : Ordnance Survey Linear Archive File LINEAR 53 in NMRC
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Source details : Helen Winton/04-JUL-1994/RCHME: Lincolnshire NMP
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Monument Types:

Monument Period Name : Roman
Display Date : Roman
Monument End Date : 410
Monument Start Date : 43
Monument Type : Drainage System, Canal
Evidence : Earthwork, Conjectural Evidence

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External Cross Reference Source : Scheduled Monument Legacy (County No.)
External Cross Reference Number : LI 275
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External Cross Reference Source : MORPH2
External Cross Reference Number : LI.536.1
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External Cross Reference Source : National Monuments Record Number
External Cross Reference Number : TF 07 SW 50
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Relationship type : Is referred to by

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Activity type : AERIAL PHOTOGRAPH INTERPRETATION
Start Date : 1992-07-01
End Date : 1997-03-01

Historic England Research Records

Car Dyke