Aves Ditch

Aves Ditch is an Iron Age ditch and bank structure running about 3 miles on a northeast to southwest alignment in the Cherwell District of Oxfordshire [1]. It was once believed to have been a Roman road but excavation has shown it to be a boundary dyke of Iron Age date that was reused in the Anglo-Saxon period [1]. A skull found in the ditch was dated to the Anglo-Saxon period [1]. Both Sauer and Lambrick have suggested that the Aves Ditch along with the North Oxfordshire Grim’s Ditch and the South Oxfordshire Grim’s Ditch may have formed the boundary between the Iron Age tribes of the Dobunni and the Catuvellauni [1].