<< Our Photo Pages >> Beacon Hill (Warnford) - Barrow Cemetery in England in Hampshire
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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Beacon Hill (Warnford)Country: England
NOTE: This site is 4.687 km away from the location you searched for.
County: Hampshire Type: Barrow Cemetery
Nearest Town: Bishop's Waltham Nearest Village: Warnford
Map Ref: SU606224
Latitude: 50.997811N Longitude: 1.137811W
Condition:
5 | Perfect |
4 | Almost Perfect |
3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
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-1 | Completely destroyed |
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4 | Good |
3 | Ordinary |
2 | Not Good |
1 | Awful |
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5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
4 | Short walk on a footpath |
3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
2 | A long walk |
1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
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5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
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[source] Only one of the bowl barrows (next to the path at SU605224) and the saucer barrow (further down the slope at SU607225) are obvious. This site has a nice symmetry with the barrow cemetery on the west-facing spur of Old Winchester Hill on the other side of the Meon valley.
Access The barrow cemetery is within the Beacon Hill National Nature Reserve, which has a convenient small car park at grid ref SU598227. Go through the gate to the southwest and follow the track with the beech plantation to your left and open fields to your right. Shortly after passing the OS trig point climb the stile and you'll easily find the two obvious barrows. Keep going down the spur and you'll cross the medieval "hollow ways": trackways worn deep into the chalk of the hill over centuries of use.
Note: Read more about the prehistory of this area by downloading the free ebook about the nearby Old Winchester Hill.
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