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The Problem of Wansdyke

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 January 2012

Albany F. Major
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The Antiquaries Journal for January, 1924, contained an article by Mr. A. D. Passmore on ‘the Age and Origin of the Wansdyke’. So little excavation has been done on Wansdyke up to the present, and its course is so imperfectly known, that I think the time has hardly come for these questions to be profitably discussed. But it is all the more important that the known facts about the dyke should be accurately presented, and it is this that leads me to offer some comments on Mr. Passmore's paper. In 1913 and the early part of 1914, and again during the last three years, I have devoted much time to tracing the actual course of Wansdyke. A detailed itinerary of its course through E. and SE. Wilts appeared in the Wiltshire Archaeological Magazine for December 1921, and a summary of results obtained in Somerset in the Proceedings of the Somersetshire Archaeological Society for the year 1922. Any claim I have to speak upon the subject rests upon this work.

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Research Article
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The Antiquaries Journal , Volume 4 , Issue 2 , April 1924 , pp. 142 - 145
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Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1924

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page 142 note 1 It is curious how people speak of ‘the Wansdyke’. You never hear them say ‘the Bokerly Dyke’, or “the Grim's Dyke’.

page 142 note 2 Vol. xli, pp. 396–406.

page 142 note 3 Vol. lxviii, pl. xxxi–ii.

page 143 note 1 Ib.

page 143 note 2 But see a note as to this on p. 53 of this volume of the Journal.

page 144 note 1 This forest-country extended south at least as far as Wansdyke as late as the reign of Edward III. See Wilts. Arch. Mag., vol. xli, p. 408.Google Scholar

page 144 note 2 See Wilts. Arch. Mag., vol. xlii, pp. 70–71.Google Scholar

page 145 note 1 See Roman Britain, by Collingwood, R. G., F.S.A., pp. 34 and 38.Google Scholar