PARK WOOD
Location/Address
None recorded
Type
Other site, structure or landscape
Assets that cannot fit any of the other categories. This category includes sites of archaeological interest, where the original form and function may not be apparent without the use of archaeological techniques and interpretation.Description
Medieval to post-medieval park boundary ditches found in field survey
Plan Form - SUBCIRCULAR
EARTHWORKS PERHAPS MARKING PARK BOUNDARY (B4). BANK & INTERNAL DITCH RUNS FROM POND IN PARK WOOD (SU82489828) W TO JOIN FIELD EDGE AT W END OF WOOD. TO E OF POND FAINT DITCH AT CROOKED BEAMAN FIRS TO RAF BASE. 'RE-ENTRANT' AT POND IS ODD (B5). EXTENSION: BANK & DITCH FROM SU83619810 TO MANOR PLOTTED (B6-7).
Previous reserachers (B6) have suggested this is the course of the park pale defining part of the 16th century deer park created by the 1st Lord Windsor. Ditch measures 2.7m in width and with the bank has an overall width of 4m. The bank is on the outside edge of the ditch. It is cut by a pond (which must therefore be later) and continues in a north-easterly direction. Its south end is truncated by a modern holloway. Early maps show a complete oval outline for the park pale, and so was probably continuous (B8).
Statement of Significance
Asset type
Medieval to post-medieval park boundary ditches found in field survey
Date Listed
n/a