If there was no access to timber, ditch and bank fences were the most popular form of fencing before the introduction of wire. Here, at Birdling Brook in Canterbury, the soil has been cut into blocks to build a sod wall. Where the soil was more friable and did not form sods, it was heaped into a bank, and the ditch was made much deeper. In some cases a ditch was dug on each side of the bank.
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