An investigation has been launched after a section of Offa’s Dyke – the ancient earthwork running along the England and Wales border – was levelled with a bulldozer.
Police have been alerted and Cadw, the Welsh Government’s heritage service, is making inquiries into damage to a stretch of the 1200-year-old protected monument, which experts have likened to “driving a road through Stonehenge”.
Travellers have been accused of using a bulldozer to flatten at least 50-yards of the dyke, which lies in a World Heritage site, close to the Pontcysyllte aqueduct in North Wales, last Sunday.
The 8th century structure, which consists of a wide ditch and rampart, is Britain’s longest ancient monument at 82 miles long.
It is seen as one of the great engineering achievements of the pre-industrial age, and the most significant surviving structure from Anglo-Saxon times.
Offa's Dyke: Part Of Monument Bulldozed
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