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Ackling Dyke

Cranborne Chase, Dorset

One of the best-preserved Roman roads in Britain, near Yeovil.

Ackling Dyke is a stretch of the Roman road from Old Sarum to Dorchester. In places, its raised bank, called an agger, still stands up to two metres high and fifteen metres wide, one of the most impressive Roman roads left in Britain.

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When
Roman
Where
50.9500, -1.9700
Group
Roman Britain

Visiting

Public footpaths follow it across Cranborne Chase, near Sixpenny Handley.

Cover of The Ledger of Lost Britain by Cale Mills
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The Ledger of Lost Britain

The Romans arrived in AD 43. For most people that is where the history of Britain begins. But by the time the legions landed, people had already been living on these islands for thousands of years. They had hunted, farmed, mined flint, dragged stones across the country, raised a hill by hand, and buried their dead in great tombs. They left no written words. What they left was the ground itself. Every place in this book can be visited, or has been dug up, or is in a museum.

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