The soil is mostly London Clay, with patchy spreads of valley and plateau gravel.
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The plateau gravels support grassland, deciduous woodland and Scots pine, with small areas of heath land persisting on Wokefield Common which borders Burghfield Common to the south.
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The topsoil of the ditch indicates evidence of earlier plowing, and the overall composition changes across belts of chalk, valley and plateau gravel and clay with flints ( Bradley, 5 ).