Dead Woman's Ditch

Dead Woman's Ditch is an earthwork which has been scheduled as an ancient monument in Over Stowey, Somerset, England situated on the Quantock Hills.

A linear earthwork consisting of a bank with a ditch along the west side running for approximately 950 metres (3,120 ft) from a spring known as Lady's Fountain across Robin Uprights Hill and down into Ramscombe.

[1] The earthwork is presumed to be of prehistoric origin and is of unknown purpose, but has been linked to Dowsborough.

[2] The 1 kilometre (0.62 mi) long earthwork has been cut through by later tracks and a road.

[3] It is badly eroded in places and is on the Heritage at Risk Register.