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Fig. 8 Location of sites of Earl’s Farm Down 
much of the eastern part of Salisbury Plain and into 
western Hampshire. Features known from aerial 
photography include ‘Wessex linears’, defined as 
lengths of ditches running long distances across 
country, sometimes in pairs, often approximately 
1km apart; and ‘local’ linears, which do not seem to 
form part of major systems and often extend from, 
and sometimes link Iron Age enclosures (Palmer 
1984, 10). ‘Wessex linears’ appear to be a largely 
Bronze Age phenomenon, representing large-scale 
organization of the landscape. 
Figure 1 shows a much-simplified version of 
