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Earthworks in Friarhampstead Wood is a scheduled ancient monument located in Oxfordshire. The site comprises a series of banks and ditches which represent medieval land management and field systems, reflecting patterns of agricultural organisation from the medieval period. The earthworks are characteristic of ridge and furrow cultivation and associated boundary features typical of the medieval English landscape, preserving evidence of historical land use practices that would otherwise be lost to modern ploughing. Such monuments are valuable for understanding the development and organisation of the medieval countryside and the subsistence strategies of rural communities.
Earthworks in Friarhampstead Wood is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1006330. View the official record →
Earthworks in Friarhampstead Wood is a scheduled ancient monument located in Oxfordshire.
Earthworks in Friarhampstead Wood 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 1006330.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Camp on Bozedown (2.5 km), Castle Grove camp (3.8 km), Grim's Ditch: two sections in Portobello Wood, Holies Shaw and High Holies Wood Gap (5.2 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Earthworks in Friarhampstead Wood'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.
Earthworks in Friarhampstead Wood stands on White Chalk Subgroup, bedrock that formed in the Maastrichtian. The rock here is chalk.