Bokerley Dyke

Bokerley Dyke, a major linear bank and ditch earthwork, is impressive, for a earthen monument several thousand years old it remains a powerful and very visible feature running over 6km across the Dorset landscape. Believed to have originated during the Bronze Age/Iron Age transition period, giving it a rough construction date around 3000 BC +/- 400, the dyke was refortified during the late Iron Age and later remodelled and refortified by the Romano British population in defence against the Saxons, later still and continuing today it delineated part of the county boundary with Hampshire.