BOUNDARY DYKE | Canmore

Term	Note
BOUNDARY BANK	An earthen bank that indicates the limit of an area or a piece of land.
BOUNDARY DITCH	A ditch that indicates the limit of an area or a piece of land.
BOUNDARY EARTHWORK	An earthwork that indicates the limit of an area or a piece of land.
CONSUMPTION DYKE	A dyke, often of great thickness, built to consume stone cleared from the land as part of the agricultural improvements of the 18th and 19th centuries.
CROSS RIDGE DYKE	A linear earthwork, usually a bank accompanied by a ditch, which runs across rather than along an area or ridge of higher ground.
HEAD DYKE	A dyke used to separate the agricultural land of a township from rough grazing.
PLANTATION DYKE	A drystone or turf wall indicating the limit of a plantation.
TREB DYKE	A prehistoric linear earthwork, found only in the Northern Isles.