L-shaped feature beside a ditch

Image: © Lairich Rig Taken: 25 Aug 2018

The ditch, shown in Image, is immediately behind the photographer. In the present picture, a street called Image is in the background. From the street, my attention was drawn by the ditch and this L-shaped feature. For a view of this low, linear feature (which I will, for convenience, call a wall) from a few metres further back, see Image, a view in about the same direction, which shows this feature's position in relation to the ditch. In the present picture, it should be possible to make out that the wall enters the right-hand edge of the photograph, leading to a point in the foreground, where it makes a sharp right-angle turn, to head (less obviously) towards the houses that are on the left. The photograph also shows that, in that side of the wall, there is a gap resembling an entrance, just beside the sharp corner. In the paper by Digney and Jones that is cited at Image, this feature receives little comment, but it is depicted on page 144, in the picture that is captioned "c.1630". This L-shaped wall is shown at the lower-right corner of that picture, with the words "Dykes c.1630(?)" beside it. See also figure 4 on page 136, where it is shown (complete with its small gap near the corner) at the lower right, just to the right of another feature that is labelled "possible ditch". For a view back along the part of the wall that is shown on the right in the present picture, as seen from a point further off to the right (near the street), see Image

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