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where it splits into two branches that continue roughly parallel to each other in a sweep starting to the north-east and turning east. The southern branch passes through
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Cronk, K A. Journey Along the Roman Ridge: Exploring the Purpose of South-West Yorkshire’ Ancient Dykes. The Clifton and Wellgate Local History Group, 2004.
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Cronk, K A. South West Yorkshire's Roman Ridge: A Who-Dug-It Mystery. The Clifton and Wellgate Local History Group, 2004.
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Hunter, Joseph (1819). An inquiry into the early state and remote history of the Parish of Sheffield. In:
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Part of the western end of the ridge was used in the Middle Ages to demarcate the boundary of
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Hallamshire. The History and Topography of the Parish of Sheffield in the County of York.
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and Sheffield. This western part parallels the Don, and a report of 1891 in the
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A lecture delivered before the Sheffield Literary and Philosophical Society (
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pp15–23. London: Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mayor & Jones.]
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and runs to the north of Swinton, meeting the River Don at Mexborough.
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The southernmost end of the dyke is thought to have been close to
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in Sheffield, but today it only becomes visible close to the
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Index

Roman Ridge
53°28′12″N 1°19′55″W / 53.470°N 1.332°W / 53.470; -1.332


Rotherham
South Yorkshire
Dyke
Wincobank
Sheffield
Mexborough
Roman road
Brigantian tribes
Roman invasion of Britain
Elmet
Angles
Lady's Bridge
River Don
Iron Age fort at Wincobank
Kimberworth
Rotherham
Greasbrough
Swinton
Kilnhurst
Scholes Coppice
Ecclesfield
Sheffield Independent
Bridgehouses
Wath-on-Dearne
Rawmarsh
Carl Wark

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