In the top row of pictures:

• Looking north-eastwards along Ackling Dyke (Roman road) from where it crosses the B3081 near Sixpenny Handley (picture)
• The agger of Ackling Dyke is particularly well preserved in this section, despite being nearly 2,000 years old (picture)
• The small kink in the tractor ruts reveal a slight linear mound running left-right across the picture – the now almost ploughed-out course of the Dorset Cursus across this field near Pentridge (picture)
• Approaching Pentridge from the south-west (picture)
• Pentridge, Church of St Rumbold, built 1855 (picture)

In the bottom row of pictures:

• Ascending the sinuous bank of Bokerley Dyke, looking north-westwards; Dorset is to the left of the bank, Hampshire to the right (picture)
• Pentridge viewed from Pentridge Down, Cranborne Chase beyond (picture)
• Wyke Down viewed from Penbury Knoll, 185m above sea level (picture)
• The view north-westwards from Penbury Knoll over Sixpenny Handley and Cranborne Chase (picture)
• Ackling Dyke once more, the low sun picking out the mounds of the much older Neolithic round barrows in a field to the left of the agger (picture)

Other sites on the web

The Dorset Page:   Pentridge – local information and links to further resources on the web

Maps of the area on streetmap.co.uk:   1:50,000 – detail, 1:250,000 – locality and route to get there

The pictures of Pentridge in this gallery were captured at high resolution.
This is images of dorset stock photography gallery 104
All photographs copyright © 1998–2003 John Allen