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Park pale at Marwell is a linear earthwork and former deer park boundary dating to the medieval period. The pale survives as a prominent bank and ditch system situated in the landscape south-east of Cowleaze Copse in Hampshire. Such park pales represent significant medieval land management infrastructure, marking the enclosed boundaries of aristocratic hunting and grazing reserves that were integral to the economy and leisure activities of the nobility. The earthwork remains an important archaeological monument testament to medieval landscape organisation and territorial control.
Park pale at Marwell, south-east of Cowleaze Copse is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1012194. View the official record →
Park pale at Marwell is a linear earthwork and former deer park boundary dating to the medieval period. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1012194.
Park pale at Marwell, south-east of Cowleaze Copse 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 1012194.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Moated site at Marwell Manor (0.6 km), Park pale at Marwell, 250m north-west of Marwell Manor (0.7 km), Park pale at Marwell, 400m west of Marwell Manor (0.9 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Park pale at Marwell, south-east of Cowleaze Copse'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.
Park pale at Marwell, south-east of Cowleaze Copse stands on Lambeth Group, bedrock that formed in the Paleocene. The rock here is clay, silt, sand and gravel.