GREEN DIKE

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Dyke known as Green Dike, approximately 1500 metres long, believed to be one of the boundary dykes to east of medieval estate of Whitby Strand. There are also two post-medieval boundary markers.

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(NZ 97060147 - 96920621) Green Dike (NR) (1)

Greendike, a dike or trench similar to many other ancient trenches that cross the moors. (2)

The Greendike runs N to Peak for about one mile. (3)

Investigated within 1:2500 area only, on AMs NZ 9700 and 9701.
It originally consisted of a ditch with flanking banks, but wall
building has largely destroyed the E bank, while that to the W has been spread by a footpath. Near the N end, where best preserved, the ditch is up to 1.5m deep and the banks average 0.6m in height.
Published survey (25") revised. (4)

Investigated at 1:10 000 in NZ 9600. The dike extends from the 1:2500 area to NZ 96920022. Throughout this length the ditch is banked on theeast. No trace of a bank can be seen on the west. There are two modernbreaks in the ditch but they are too small to survey. The ditch attains a maximum depth of 1.4m and the bank on the east is 0.5m high.Surveyed at 1:10 000.
On the OS 6" 1958 a possible extension to the south can be seen, but this area is now afforested and the ditch is not recognisable.
(5)

The three undated linear earthworks near the coast, namely Green Dyke, War Dyke (see SE 99 NE 32) and Stone Dale Dyke (Cloughton) (see SE 99 NE 11) appear to be isolated earthworks and not parts of a larger territorial scheme.

(Greendike is mentioned as forming part of the boundary of Pickering Forest - see SE 78 NW 77 - in a 17th century perambulation) (6)

(NZ 971008). Green Dike. Scheduled. (7)

Green Dike is believed to one of the medieval boundary dykes forming the eastern boundary to the estate of Whitby Strand and was in use into the post-medieval period. There are also two post medieval boundary stones at its northern and southern ends. (8)

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( 1) Ordnance Survey Map (Scale / Date)

OS 6" 1853

( 2) by T Whellan and Co. 1857 History and topography of the city of York and the North Riding of Yorkshire : embracing a general review of the early history of Great Britain, and a general history and description of the county of York [2 volumes]

York and The N Riding 2 1859 832 (T Whellan)

( 3) edited by William Page 1912 The Victoria history of the county of York, volume two

The Victoria history of the counties of England Page(s)57

( 4) Field Investigators Comments

F1 DS 15-DEC-72

( 5) Field Investigators Comments

F2 JB 23-JAN-74

( 6) British Archaeological Reports: British series

Prehist and Ro Arch of NE Yorks (Ed D A Spratt) 104 (1982) Page(s)175, 290

( 7) List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest

DOE(IAM)AMs Eng 1 - N Eng 1978 62

(8) Scheduled Monument Notification

14 August 2001

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