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Battery Bank is a linear earthwork located on Great Plantation near Woodside in Dorset. The monument comprises a substantial bank and ditch that runs across the landscape, characteristic of medieval or post-medieval boundary features. Such linear earthworks were commonly constructed to demarcate property boundaries, enclose agricultural land, or define territorial limits within the manorial system. The site's survival as an upstanding archaeological feature indicates its significance in understanding the development of land use and landscape management in this region of Dorset.
Battery Bank: a linear boundary on Great Plantation, 450m north east of Woodside is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1015347. View the official record →
Battery Bank is a linear earthwork located on Great Plantation near Woodside in Dorset. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1015347.
Battery Bank: a linear boundary on Great Plantation, 450m north east of Woodside is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, legally protected by Historic England (NHLE) — the body responsible for designating and safeguarding heritage sites in England. The official designation reference is 1015347.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Round barrow on Boat Knoll (7.3 km), Flower's Barrow: a small multivallate hillfort and associated outwork on Rings Hill (8 km), Two barrows in Halcombe Vale, 700m south west of Monastery Farm (8.1 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Battery Bank: a linear boundary on Great Plantation, 450m north east of Woodside's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
Every location is different. Not every section appears for every place, only what the historical record actually holds turns up in a report.
Battery Bank: a linear boundary on Great Plantation, 450m north east of Woodside stands on Bracklesham Group And Barton Group (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Eocene. The rock here is sand, silt and clay.