South Oxfordshire
The South Oxfordshire ditch is a 5-mile (8 km) section between Mongewell, on the banks of the Thames near Wallingford and Hayden Farm near Nettlebed in the Chilterns escarpment. Part of the western end was excavated during the building of Winterbrook Bridge, and dated as late Iron Age/early Roman. The ditch has a bank on the north side which suggests that its function was to exclude passage into the southernmost part of Oxfordshire.
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