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Summary

A woodland boundary bank was recorded during a watching brief north of Forest Pines golf club in 2006. It may date from the Saxon or medieval period.

Monument Types

• WOOD BANK (EMED:AS/MED, Early Medieval/Dark Age to Medieval - 600 AD? to 1539 AD?)

Protected Status - None

Associated Finds - None

Associated Events

• Watching brief at Access Road, Broughton Forest Pines Golf Club, Broughton, North Lincolnshire, 2006 (Ref: BFPG 06)

Full description

A watching brief was carried out by Lindsey Archaeological Services during the construction of a temporary access road to Forest Pines Golf Club, 2006.

The access road was machined by mechanical excavator from the existing asphalt surfaced path on the western side of Ermine Street. A ditch and bank were recorded after stripping; the western edge of the ditch was visible, cutting through natural brown-orange aeolian sand. The fill of the ditch was a dark brown-grey silt sand, and produced a sherd of modern pottery and ceramic drain. This fill was machined to a depth of 0.55m; a full profile could not be obtained.

The bank was observed to have slumped into the backfilled ditch. On top of the bank was a modern post and wire fence boundary to the golf course. No archaeological finds were recovered from the bank.

The report concluded that the ditch was likely to be a roadside ditch to the Roman road, later reused as part of a boundary when a bank was constructed to its western side. The ditch and bank together fall within the range of widths for a medieval woodbank (6 - 12m). The function of the woodbank was to protect woodland resources from wandering livestock, or theft. Domesday records that Ralf Pagnel owned underwood in Broughton parish, 'two leagues in length and one in breadth'. These dimensions roughly fit with the reduced area of woodland west of Ermine Street, including the land now occupied by the golf club. If the roadside ditch was not Roman, then a boundary originating during the Anglo-Saxon period could be possible. [1]

<1> Rowlandson, I., 2006, Archaeological watching brief: Access Road, Broughton Forest Pines Golf Club, Broughton, North Lincolnshire, 1-4, Fig 3 (REPORT - INTERIM, RESEARCH, SPECIALIST, ETC). SLS3492.

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