Aberford Dykes

The complex consists of three individual earthworks: Becca Banks/the Ridge, the South Dyke, and Woodhouse Moor Rein.

[2] Becca Banks/the Ridge has a strongly defensive nature, and may have been built to control a ford over the Cock Beck.

Where subjected to archaeological excavation, the monuments have been found to date from or after the late Iron Age, and it would seem they were silting up during the early Medieval period.

This runs for nearly 3 miles (5 km) on a mostly east-west course along the north side of the Cock Beck valley.

[1] The other two monuments are located on the south side of the Cock Beck valley, and do not share the strong defensive characteristics of Becca Banks/the Ridge.