3/24/2023 0 Comments Coppice wood![]() ![]() produced by the Historic Environment Record.For the sources of these notes, see the.wood anemone Anemone nemorosa) also consists of species largely restricted to ancient woods in this area.Ģ Presence of extensive old small-leaved lime coppice supports a Medieval date for the wood and may indicate a direct link with prehistoric wildwood.ģ A ditched and banked boundary was identified during a walkover survey prior to a proposed water pipeline. Lime is particularly susceptible to grazing and its presence in quantity here is probably an indication that the wood has been an enclosed coppice wood with very restricted or no grazing throughout its recorded history. Coppice stools of this size are ancient monuments in themselves. Both these species are generally relict species in the lowlands, largely confined to ancient woods. There is extensive ancient coppice of small-leaved lime Tilia cordata, with stools up to 5m in diameter, and sessile oak Quercus petraea, much of it former coppice with surviving stools up to 2 m in diameter. The structure and composition of much of the wood is indicative of its ancient status. Within the wood there is an undated oval enclosure of c.4 ha within the northern edge 6 probable sawpits domestic refuse pits associated with the site of a late 18th/early 19th century gamekeepers lodge at the south-western corner a number of undated pits and a small quarry natural and/or man-made ditch systems and several probably natural shallow hollows. This extends along the north edge of Brandon Wood to the east. The southern edge had, prior to 1996 when much of it was bulldozed, a bank with an internal ditch which was probably the Medieval deer park bank of Brandon to the south. There is a woodbank c.8 m wide on much of the east, north and west edges of the wood by comparison with woodbanks from Birchley and New Close Woods (qv) and East Anglia (Oliver Rackham, Trees and Woodland in the British Landscape 1990), it is likely to be of at least Medieval date. The winter color of curly willow stems is subtle, but no so its shape. Most bunches are 10 stems, except for the curly willow. Once the leaves fall, those twigs which are ready are harvested, sorted by length, bundled and shipped. It may also be the Munechet (a Celtic wood name) of c.1250 if so, it may have existed c.500 AD. The coppice wood of this redtwig dogwood cultivar is known for its especially brilliant color. ![]() Almost certainly recorded in the 1279 Hundred Rolls, the wood can probably be identified with one of the two woods recorded in Domesday Book 1086. The coppice wood of this redtwig dogwood cultivar is known for its especially brilliant color. ![]()
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