Roman Road between Badbury Rings and Old Sarum

Roman Road near Handley Hill Cranborne Chase Dorset Roman Road near Handley Hill Cranborne Chase Dorset. The bank (agger) of the Roman Road, Ackling Dyke, looking northeast. The agger is covered in rough grass with the occasional small tree. This uncultivated land is in sharp contrast to the intensive arable agriculture on either side.

Surroundings:

Location:

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Sixpenny Handley
geo:50.946136,-1.979024
Location ± 0-5 m.

Class:

Road
visible

Identifiers:

vici:place=19558
wikidata:entity=Q4674275

Annotations

This segment of the extended Portway between Old Sarum and Badbury Rings is called the Ackling Dyke and has an exceptionally high agger. It is road segment 4c in Margary,

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ackling_Dyke

Roman Road between Badbury Rings and Old Sarum

Nearby

Roman milestone

Dorset Cursus

Dorset Cursus Neolithic Cursus. East of Sixpenny Handley