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Linear earthwork in Butleigh Wood is a substantial bank and ditch running through woodland in the parish of Butleigh, Somerset. The monument is believed to date from the Iron Age or Romano-British period, though its precise chronology remains uncertain without modern archaeological investigation. The earthwork extends for considerable length through the wood and represents either a territorial boundary, defensive feature, or land division characteristic of such periods in the region. Its survival within the woodland environment has preserved the physical form of this linear monument, which remains a notable example of prehistoric or Romano-British landscape engineering in Somerset.
Linear earthwork in Butleigh Wood is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1006152. View the official record →
Linear earthwork in Butleigh Wood is a substantial bank and ditch running through woodland in the parish of Butleigh, Somerset. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1006152.
Linear earthwork in Butleigh 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 1006152.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Medieval farmstead, E of Butleigh Wood (0.4 km), Compton Dundon hillfort with Dundon Beacon, east of Dundon (2.1 km), The easternmost of three duck decoys on Walton Moor (4.3 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Linear earthwork in Butleigh 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.
Linear earthwork in Butleigh Wood stands on Lias Group, bedrock that formed in the Aalenian. The rock here is mudstone, siltstone, limestone and sandstone.