page_title: Landwehr (border)
section_title: Border defences in England, Scotland, Denmark and North Germany, Poland
hierarchical_section_title: Landwehr (border) / Examples of landwehrs / Border defences in England, Scotland, Denmark and North Germany, Poland
caption_attribution_description: English: The Ridgeway in Grim's Ditch near Mongewell, with Common Bluebells (Hyacinthoides non-scripta) in flower
context_page_description: The terms landwehr, landgraben and landhege refer to border demarcations or border defences and enclosures in Central Europe that were either built by settlements with the right of enclosure or to mark and defend entire territories. These measures, usually comprising earthworks or dykes as well as ditches and impenetrable lines of hedging, for protecting towns and villages date mainly to the High and Late Middle Ages and consist, in some cases, of systems over a hundred kilometres long. Comparable earthworks have been recorded since Antiquity. The Roman limes are the best known examples of earlier landwehrs. The Danewerk is another example of this type of barrier.
  Many of these landwehrs have survived, especially in woods and forests, and are often protected as heritage sites.
context_section_description: Bokerley Dyke
  Danewerk
  Grim's Ditch
  Offa's Dyke
  Wansdyke
  Wat's Dyke
  Antonine Wall
  Hadrian's Wall
caption: Grim's Ditch
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