The Fort Beauséjour road and the relict of the base of a running dyke located below the Fort. A running dyke is a dyke that stretches from one aboiteau to the next aboiteau.



Cut sods ("parements" ) on the base of an old dyke on the Tantramar Salt Marsh.

  • Running Dykes

  • The Aboiteau

  • Dales

    References

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    Hatvany, Matthew George. 2003. Marshlands : four centuries of environmental change on the shores of the St. Lawrence, Aboiteaux of Kamouraska. Sainte-Foy, Quebec : Presses de l'Université Laval.

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    Rippon, Stephen, Nigel Cameron, and Council for British Archaeology. 2006. Landscape, community and colonisation : the north Somerset levels during the 1st to 2nd millennia AD. York: Council for British Archaeology.

    Sebold, Kimberly R. (1992) FROM MARSH TO FARM: The Landscape Transformation of Coastal New Jersey. National Park Service, [cited 7 July 2010. Available from http://www.nps.gov/history/history/online_books/nj3/contents.htm.