Huggate Dykes Bronze Age earthworks
Huggate Dykes is a rare beast. It's dated to the Bronze Age but may still have been in use and possibly enhanced in the iron Age. Situated in the hillier section of the Wolds in East Yorkshire, it consists of a series of parallel banks and ditches, or dykes as they're referred to in these parts. Nobody knows quite what their purpose was as they obviously aren't defensive and are a mixture of single banks up to a mile in length and multiple close-knit (up to four dykes as in the opening photo)at the North Eastern terminus so possibly they're elaborate boundary markers or maybe had some ceremonial purpose? At any rate it took a lot of digging!