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Grim's Ditch, the Glossary

Grim's Ditch, Grim's Dyke (also Grimsdyke or Grimes Dike in derivative names) or Grim's Bank is a name shared by a number of prehistoric bank and ditch linear earthworks across England.^[1]

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Archaeological sites in Berkshire
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Aldermaston

Aldermaston is a village and civil parish in Berkshire, England.

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Aldworth

Aldworth is a village and mainly farmland civil parish in the English county of Berkshire, near the boundary with Oxfordshire.

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Anglo-Saxon paganism, sometimes termed Anglo-Saxon heathenism, Anglo-Saxon pre-Christian religion, Anglo-Saxon traditional religion, or Anglo-Saxon polytheism refers to the religious beliefs and practices followed by the Anglo-Saxons between the 5th and 8th centuries AD, during the initial period of Early Medieval England.

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Anglo-Saxons

The Anglo-Saxons, the English or Saxons of Britain, were a cultural group who spoke Old English and inhabited much of what is now England and south-eastern Scotland in the Early Middle Ages.

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Antonine Wall

The Antonine Wall (Vallum Antonini) was a turf fortification on stone foundations, built by the Romans across what is now the Central Belt of Scotland, between the Firth of Clyde and the Firth of Forth. Grim's Ditch and Antonine Wall are linear earthworks.

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Ardington

Ardington is a village and civil parish about east of Wantage in the Vale of White Horse.

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Atomic Weapons Establishment

The Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE) is a United Kingdom Ministry of Defence research facility responsible for the design, manufacture and support of warheads for the UK's nuclear weapons. It is the successor to the Atomic Weapons Research Establishment (AWRE) with its main site on the former RAF Aldermaston and has major facilities at Burghfield, Blacknest and RNAD Coulport.

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Berkhamsted

Berkhamsted is a historic market town in Hertfordshire, England, in the Bulbourne valley, north-west of London.

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Bokerley Dyke

Bokerley Dyke, Bokerly Dyke, Bokerley Ditch, is a linear earthwork long in Hampshire, between Woodyates and Martin. Grim's Ditch and Bokerley Dyke are ancient dikes and linear earthworks.

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Boudican revolt

The Boudican revolt was an armed uprising by native Celtic Britons against the Roman Empire during the Roman conquest of Britain.

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Bronze Age

The Bronze Age was a historical period lasting from approximately 3300 to 1200 BC.

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Brown Moor

Brown Moor is an area in the metropolitan borough of the City of Leeds in West Yorkshire, England, east of Austhorpe and north of Colton.

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Burngreave (ward)

Burngreave ward—which includes the districts of Burngreave, Fir Vale, Grimesthorpe, Pitsmoor, and Shirecliffe—is one of the 28 electoral wards in City of Sheffield, England.

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Bushey

Bushey is a town in the Hertsmere borough of Hertfordshire in the East of England.

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Camulodunum

Camulodunum (camvlodvnvm), the Ancient Roman name for what is now Colchester in Essex, was an important castrum and city in Roman Britain, and the first capital of the province.

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Castleford

Castleford is a town within the City of Wakefield district, West Yorkshire, England. It had a population of 45,106 at a 2021 population estimate. Historically in the West Riding of Yorkshire, to the north of the town centre the River Calder joins the River Aire and the Aire and Calder Navigation. It is located north east of Wakefield, north of Pontefract and south east of Leeds.

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Chiltern Hills

The Chiltern Hills or the Chilterns are a chalk escarpment in southern England, northwest of London, covering across Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Hertfordshire, and Bedfordshire, stretching from Goring-on-Thames in the southwest to Hitchin in the northeast.

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Chilton, Oxfordshire

Chilton is a village and civil parish in the Vale of White Horse district of Oxfordshire, England, about southwest of Didcot.

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Christianity in Anglo-Saxon England

In the seventh century the pagan Anglo-Saxons were converted to Christianity (Crīstendōm) mainly by missionaries sent from Rome.

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Colchester

Colchester is a city in northeastern Essex, England.

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Conflation

Conflation is the merging of two or more sets of information, texts, ideas, or opinions into one, often in error.

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Credenhill

Credenhill is a village and civil parish in Herefordshire, England.

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Danelaw

The Danelaw (also known as the Danelagh; Danelagen; Dena lagu) was the part of England in which the laws of the Danes held sway and dominated those of the Anglo-Saxons.

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Danes (tribe)

The Danes were a North Germanic tribe inhabiting southern Scandinavia, including the area now comprising Denmark proper, northern and eastern England, and the Scanian provinces of modern-day southern Sweden, during the Nordic Iron Age and the Viking Age.

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Devil

A devil is the personification of evil as it is conceived in various cultures and religious traditions.

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Devil in Christianity

In Christianity, the Devil is the personification of evil.

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Devil's Dyke, Cambridgeshire

Devil's Dyke or Devil's Ditch is a linear earthen barrier, thought to be of Anglo-Saxon origin, in eastern Cambridgeshire and Suffolk. Grim's Ditch and Devil's Dyke, Cambridgeshire are ancient dikes and linear earthworks.

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Devil's Dyke, Hertfordshire

Devil's Dyke is the remains of a prehistoric defensive ditch which lies at the east side of the village of Wheathampstead, Hertfordshire, England. Grim's Ditch and Devil's Dyke, Hertfordshire are ancient dikes and linear earthworks.

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Devil's Dyke, Sussex

Devil's Dyke is a 100 metre (300') deep V-shaped dry valley on the South Downs in Sussex in southern England, north-west of Brighton. Grim's Ditch and Devil's Dyke, Sussex are ancient dikes and linear earthworks.

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Devil's Dykes

The Devil's Dykes (Hungarian: Ördög árok), also known as the Csörsz árka ("Csörsz Ditch") or the Limes Sarmatiae (Latin for "Sarmatian border"), are several lines of Roman fortifications built mostly during the reign of Constantine the Great (306–337), stretching between today's Hungary, Romania and Serbia. Grim's Ditch and Devil's Dykes are ancient dikes and linear earthworks.

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Ditch

A ditch is a small to moderate trench created to channel water.

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Dorset

Dorset (archaically: Dorsetshire) is a ceremonial county in South West England.

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Dragon

A dragon is a magical legendary creature that appears in the folklore of multiple cultures worldwide.

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East Hendred

East Hendred is a village and civil parish about east of Wantage in the Vale of White Horse and a similar distance west of Didcot.

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Eccleshill, Lancashire

Eccleshill is a civil parish in the Borough of Blackburn with Darwen, Lancashire, England.

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Eilert Ekwall

Bror Oscar Eilert Ekwall (8 January 1877 in Vallsjö – 23 November 1964 in Lund) was a Swedish academic, Professor of English at Sweden's Lund University from 1909 to 1942 and one of the outstanding scholars of the English language in the first half of the 20th century.

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Essex

Essex is a ceremonial county in the East of England, and one of the home counties.

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Flint

Flint, occasionally flintstone, is a sedimentary cryptocrystalline form of the mineral quartz, categorized as the variety of chert that occurs in chalk or marly limestone.

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Frank Stenton

Sir Frank Merry Stenton FBA (17 May 1880 – 15 September 1967) was an English historian of Anglo-Saxon England, a professor of history at the University of Reading (1926–1946), president of the Royal Historical Society (1937–1945), Reading University's vice-chancellor (1946–1950).

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Gothic Revival architecture

Gothic Revival (also referred to as Victorian Gothic or neo-Gothic) is an architectural movement that after a gradual build-up beginning in the second half of the 17th century became a widespread movement in the first half of the 19th century, mostly in England.

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Greater London

Greater London is the administrative area of London, which is coterminous with the London region.

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Grim's Ditch (Chilterns)

Grim's Ditch is a series of linear earthwork in the Chilterns (southeast England). Grim's Ditch and Grim's Ditch (Chilterns) are ancient dikes and linear earthworks.

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Grim's Ditch (Harrow)

Grim's Ditch or Grim's Dyke or Grimes Dike is a linear earthwork in the London Borough of Harrow, in the historic county of Middlesex, and lends its name to the gentle escarpment it crowns, marking Hertfordshire's border. Grim's Ditch and Grim's Ditch (Harrow) are ancient dikes and linear earthworks.

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Grim's Dyke

Grim's Dyke (sometimes called Graeme's Dyke until late 1891)How, Harry.

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Grime's Graves

Grime's Graves is a large Neolithic flint mining complex in Norfolk, England.

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Grimethorpe

Grimethorpe is a village in the metropolitan borough of Barnsley in South Yorkshire, England.

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Grimsby

Grimsby or Great Grimsby is a port town and the administrative centre of North East Lincolnshire, Lincolnshire, England.

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Grimshaw

Grimshaw may refer to.

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Grimsthorpe

Grimsthorpe is a hamlet in the South Kesteven district of Lincolnshire, England.

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Hampshire

Hampshire (abbreviated to Hants.) is a ceremonial county in South East England.

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Harrow Weald

Harrow Weald is a suburban district in Greater London, England.

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Heraldry

Heraldry is a discipline relating to the design, display and study of armorial bearings (known as armory), as well as related disciplines, such as vexillology, together with the study of ceremony, rank and pedigree.

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Herefordshire

Herefordshire is a ceremonial county in the West Midlands region of England.

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History of Danish

The Danish language developed during the Middle Ages out of Old East Norse, the common predecessor of Danish and Swedish.

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Hungary

Hungary is a landlocked country in Central Europe.

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Irish language

Irish (Standard Irish: Gaeilge), also known as Irish Gaelic or simply Gaelic, is a Goidelic language of the Insular Celtic branch of the Celtic language group, which is a part of the Indo-European language family.

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Iron Age

The Iron Age is the final epoch of the three historical Metal Ages, after the Chalcolithic and Bronze Age.

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Leeds

Leeds is a city in West Yorkshire, England.

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Levee

A levee, dike (American English), dyke (Commonwealth English), embankment, floodbank, or stop bank is a structure used to keep the course of rivers from changing and to protect against flooding of the area adjoining the river or coast.

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Limes (Roman Empire)

Limes (Latin;,: limites) is a term used primarily for the Germanic border defence or delimiting system of Ancient Rome marking the borders of the Roman Empire.

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Linear earthwork

In archaeology, a linear earthwork is a long bank of earth, sometimes with a ditch alongside. Grim's Ditch and linear earthwork are linear earthworks.

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Margaret Faull

Margaret Lindsay Faull, (born 4 April 1946) is an Australian-British archaeologist and museum director, noted for her work on Anglo-Saxon England and industrial archaeology.

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Martin, Hampshire

Martin is a village and civil parish in the New Forest district of Hampshire, England.

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A metaphor is a figure of speech that, for rhetorical effect, directly refers to one thing by mentioning another.

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Mongewell

Mongewell is a village in the civil parish of Crowmarsh in the South Oxfordshire district, in Oxfordshire, England, about south of Wallingford.

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Neolithic

The Neolithic or New Stone Age (from Greek νέος 'new' and λίθος 'stone') is an archaeological period, the final division of the Stone Age in Europe, Asia and Africa.

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Netherton, Hampshire

Netherton is a hamlet in northwest Hampshire, England.

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Nettlebed

Nettlebed is a village and civil parish in Oxfordshire in the Chiltern Hills about northwest of Henley-on-Thames and southeast of Wallingford.

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Norfolk

Norfolk is a ceremonial county in the East of England and East Anglia.

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Odin

Odin (from Óðinn) is a widely revered god in Germanic paganism.

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Old English

Old English (Englisċ or Ænglisc), or Anglo-Saxon, was the earliest recorded form of the English language, spoken in England and southern and eastern Scotland in the early Middle Ages.

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Old Saxon Baptismal Vow

The Old Saxon Baptismal Vow, also called the Old Saxon Catechism, Utrecht Baptismal Vow and Abrenuntiatio Diaboli, is a baptismal vow that was found in a ninth-century manuscript in a monastery library in Mainz, Germany.

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Oppidum

An oppidum (oppida) is a large fortified Iron Age settlement or town.

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Oxfordshire

Oxfordshire (abbreviated Oxon) is a ceremonial county in South East England.

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Oxfordshire Architectural and Historical Society

The Oxfordshire Architectural and Historical Society (OAHS) has existed in one form or another since at least 1839, although with its current name only since 1972.

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River Thames

The River Thames, known alternatively in parts as the River Isis, is a river that flows through southern England including London.

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Roman Britain

Roman Britain was the territory that became the Roman province of Britannia after the Roman conquest of Britain, consisting of a large part of the island of Great Britain.

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Roman roads

Roman roads (viae Romanae; singular: via Romana; meaning "Roman way") were physical infrastructure vital to the maintenance and development of the Roman state, and were built from about 300 BC through the expansion and consolidation of the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire.

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Romania

Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central, Eastern, and Southeast Europe.

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Routledge

Routledge is a British multinational publisher.

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Ryan (given name)

Ryan is an English-language given name of Irish origin.

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Scheduled monument

In the United Kingdom, a scheduled monument is a nationally important archaeological site or historic building, given protection against unauthorised change.

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Scotland

Scotland (Scots: Scotland; Scottish Gaelic: Alba) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.

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Serbia

Serbia, officially the Republic of Serbia, is a landlocked country at the crossroads of Southeast and Central Europe, located in the Balkans and the Pannonian Plain.

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Solar deity

A solar deity or sun deity is a deity who represents the Sun or an aspect thereof.

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Somerset

Somerset (archaically Somersetshire) is a ceremonial county in South West England.

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St Brice's Day massacre

The St.

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Streatley, Berkshire

Streatley is a village and civil parish on the River Thames in Berkshire, England.

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The Ridgeway

The Ridgeway is a ridgeway or ancient trackway described as Britain's oldest road. Grim's Ditch and The Ridgeway are archaeological sites in Berkshire and archaeological sites in Oxfordshire.

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Toponymy of England

The toponymy of England derives from a variety of linguistic origins.

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Ufton Nervet

Ufton Nervet is a village and civil parish in West Berkshire, England centred west southwest of the large town of Reading and 7 miles east of Thatcham.

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Upton, north Test Valley

Upton is a hamlet in Hampshire, located approximately 7 miles north of Andover.

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Viking Age

The Viking Age (about) was the period during the Middle Ages when Norsemen known as Vikings undertook large-scale raiding, colonising, conquest, and trading throughout Europe and reached North America.

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Vikings

Vikings were seafaring people originally from Scandinavia (present-day Denmark, Norway, and Sweden), who from the late 8th to the late 11th centuries raided, pirated, traded, and settled throughout parts of Europe.

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W. H. Stevenson

William Henry Stevenson (7 September 1858 – 22 October 1924), who wrote as W. H. Stevenson, was an English historian and philologist who specialized in Anglo-Saxon England.

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W. S. Gilbert

Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (18 November 1836 – 29 May 1911) was an English dramatist, librettist, poet and illustrator best known for his collaboration with composer Arthur Sullivan, which produced fourteen comic operas.

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Wallingford, Oxfordshire

Wallingford is a historic market town and civil parish on the River Thames in South Oxfordshire, England, north of Reading, south of Oxford and north west of Henley-on-Thames.

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Wansdyke

Wansdyke (from Woden's Dyke) is a series of early medieval defensive linear earthworks in the West Country of England, consisting of a ditch and a running embankment from the ditch spoil, with the ditching facing north. Grim's Ditch and Wansdyke are ancient dikes and linear earthworks.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grim's_Ditch

Also known as Grim's Bank, Grim's Ditch (West Yorkshire), Grimm's Ditch, Grimsditch.

, Harrow Weald, Heraldry, Herefordshire, History of Danish, Hungary, Irish language, Iron Age, Leeds, Levee, Limes (Roman Empire), Linear earthwork, Margaret Faull, Martin, Hampshire, Metaphor, Mongewell, Neolithic, Netherton, Hampshire, Nettlebed, Norfolk, Odin, Old English, Old Saxon Baptismal Vow, Oppidum, Oxfordshire, Oxfordshire Architectural and Historical Society, River Thames, Roman Britain, Roman roads, Romania, Routledge, Ryan (given name), Scheduled monument, Scotland, Serbia, Solar deity, Somerset, St Brice's Day massacre, Streatley, Berkshire, The Ridgeway, Toponymy of England, Ufton Nervet, Upton, north Test Valley, Viking Age, Vikings, W. H. Stevenson, W. S. Gilbert, Wallingford, Oxfordshire, Wansdyke, Warwickshire, Watling Street, Weeting, Wiltshire, Winterbrook Bridge.

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See also

Ancient dikes

Archaeological sites in Berkshire

Archaeological sites in England

Archaeological sites in Hampshire

Archaeological sites in Oxfordshire

References