North edge of Ploughman Wood also aligned with parish boundary between Lowdham and Woodborough. It is a significant structure, at least 12 meters wide in places, and has the gentle domed profile of those typical of an early date. They were built to prevent grazing animals on the adjoining fields from eating the young shoots of new trees and coppice. They would have a ditch on the field side, which at Ploughman is now the path, and a bank on the wood side. There would usually be a fence or hedge on top of the bank to make it stock proof but no evidence of it remains today. The 1609 map shows a fence along the west section where the wood tapers to a point as it heads towards Lowdham

M. Parker, 2021, The Mapped History of Ploughman Wood (Unpublished document). SNT5310.