Woodland Survey

Woodland Survey 15

Date

25/01/04

Name Birdshole Lane trackway adjacent to The Commons (part of Handlye Common) and woods.
TA field no. 844, 847, 856, 859, 876, 877.
Activity Recording banks; walk through assessments; hedgerow standards recording.
Report

Mixed coppice within wood, mainly hornbeam and hazel including small area of ash coppice. Plantation oaks; oaks in hedgerow.

Early Modern plantation woodland, with evidence of different phases of woodland planting. The track has been deliberately narrowed through in-planting of standards. Field perimeter standards evenly spaced as estate boundaries. Trackway banking substantial and possibly Late Medieval in origin, although the route may be much earlier.

Barcombe archaeology 2003-2006

Field Walking and Historical Environment Records

Test-pits

Woodland survey