Information for record number MWA13162:
Wood Banks

Summary The greater woodbank encloses Oakley wood and may date from about 1300. The banks around Moreton wood and Wiggerland wood are smaller.
What Is It?  
Type: Wood Bank
Period: Medieval - Modern (1066 AD - 2050 AD)
Where Is It?  
Parish: Bishops Tachbrook
District: Warwick, Warwickshire
Grid Reference: SP 30 59
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Level of Protection Local
Description

  
Source Number  

1 The modern Oakley Wood was originally known as three separate Woodlands - Oakley Wood, Moreton Close and Wiggerland Wood. Oakley Wood has long been known to be protected by a Woodbank but the existance of Woodbanks about the other two Woodlands has not previously been recorded.
 
Sources
Source No: 1
Source Type: Unpublished document
Title: Oakley Wood, the Camp & The wood Banks.
Author/originator: J Brace
Date: 2010
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period Modern The Modern Period, about 1915 AD to the present (the 20th and 21st centuries AD)

In recent years archaeologists have realised the importance of recording modern sites. They do this so that in the future people will be able to look at the remains to help them understand the events to which they are related.
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period Medieval 1066 AD to 1539 AD (the 11th century AD to the 16th century AD)

The medieval period comes after the Saxon period and before the post medieval period.

The Medieval period begins in 1066 AD.
This was the year that the Normans, led by William the Conqueror (1066 – 1087), invaded England and defeated Harold Godwinson at the Battle of Hastings in East Sussex.
The Medieval period includes the first half of the Tudor period (1485 – 1603 AD), when the Tudor family reigned in England and eventually in Scotland too.

The end of the Medieval period is marked by Henry VIII’s (1509 – 1547) order for the Dissolution of the Monasteries in the years running up to 1539 AD. The whole of this period is sometimes called the Middle Ages.
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period modern About 1915 AD to the present (the 20th and 21st centuries AD)

In recent years archaeologists have realised the importance of recording modern sites. They do this so that in the future people will be able to look at the remains to help them understand the events to which they are related.
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monument WOOD * A tract of land with trees, sometimes acting as a boundary or barrier, usually smaller and less wild than a forest. back
monument WOOD BANK * An earthen bank indicating the limit of a wood or coppice back

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