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Cleaven Dyke

Distance from Blairgowrie: About 5 miles south of Blairgowrie on the A93

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Located between Meikleour and Blairgowrie, Cleaven Dyke is the finest prehistoric monument of its type in Britain. A vast earthwork measuring some 2.6km long, averaging 9m wide and 1.8m high in places - you've probably driven past it and not realised!

Cleaven Dyke was long thought to have been a Roman defensive structure, possibly linked to the Roman forts at Inchtuthil and Meikleour. However, excavations carried out in the 1990s revealed that it is a Neolithic cursus, the purpose of which is open to debate but which may have been a ritual monument or a perhaps a processional route.

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Meikleour, Perthshire PH2 6EN