Report on an archaeological assessment undertaken in 2003 by N Bannister for the Woodlands Trust. Because the wood was probably managed as a wood pasture common (where manorial tenants could graze stock beneath an open canopy of pollarded trees and where there was little need for wood banks dividing the property of different woodland owners), and because of levelling for and laying out of a munitions store located here during the Second World War, few features of antiquity exist. A circular concrete water tank and possibly the main access track date from the Second World War, and isolated features, such as a short length of wood bank indicative of a possible droveway through the common and numerous drains, still exist.