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Badbury. This spot, for reasons that I shall afterwards explain, I 
call Bokerly Junction. Here the left centre of the dyke terminates, 
and turning at a sharp angle towards the north, the left wing of the 
dyke, now reduced in size, runs forward, occupying the most elevated 
part of the hill, until it reaches Hill Copse. This is nearly the only 
remaining copse of the Chase Wood, the rest having been completely 
destroyed in this district. Passing Hill Copse, the dyke winds 
round to the westward, running down hill beyond West Woodyates. 
It does not cross the Grim’s Dyke, as has been stated, but turns 
and runs parallel to it. It is last seen, much reduced in size, in 
front of West Woodyates, and making for the entrenchment in 
Mistlebury Wood, but it cannot be traced up to it. The dyke does 
not extend to the chalk escarpment on the north, as has been stated 
by some writers, but runs nearly parallel to it, at a distance of a 
mile from it, the ground rising gradually towards the escarpment 
from the dyke. The interval was occupied formerly by Cranborne 
Chase Wood, up to within 100yds. or so to the escarpment, along 
which, for some miles, there appears always to have been, and is 
now, a ridge of open down land, termed the Ridgeway, running east 
and west along the top of the hill. Across this Ridgeway, on 
referring to the Ordnance Map, banks may be seen in three 
different places behind each other, having ditches on the east side, 
and separated by intervals of a mile or so, the most westerly being 
that which cuts across the hill, to the west of Win Green. These 
short entrenchments, facing as they do always to the east, appear 
to me to have been thrown up to check an advance along the 
Ridgeway of an enemy coming from the east, and, if so, may have 
been a part of the general system of defence of this district, in 
connection with Bokerly Dyke, though not actually communicating 
with it. These entrenchments had their left flanks on what I call 
the chalk escarpment, though it is in reality nothing but a steep 
hill, and their right, in former days, upon the Chase Wood. 
Still further to the north-west a line of bank and ditch, with the 
ditch still on the east side, runs across White Sheet Hill for about 
a mile in the direction of Wardour. Both flanks of this detached 
work terminate at the bottom of the hill, upon ground which may 
