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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Watchmoor WoodCountry: England County: Hampshire Type: Round Barrow(s)
Nearest Town: Ringwood Nearest Village: Ashley
Map Ref: SU131054
Latitude: 50.847974N Longitude: 1.815291W
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 |
0 | No data. |
-1 | Completely destroyed |
5 | Superb |
4 | Good |
3 | Ordinary |
2 | Not Good |
1 | Awful |
0 | No data. |
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 |
0 | No data. |
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 |
2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village |
1 | co-ordinates of the nearest town |
0 | no data |
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Round Barrows in Hampshire. Two worn tumuli beside foot path above a down-hill off-road cycle course. The monuments are scarred by forestry planting furrows as well as general abuse by pulic who are unware of the nature of one of the humps they walk over. Indeed, the southerly of the two is worn completely on one edge by the footpath, and is bicycled over as a ramp.
They have both been recently cleared of the trees that grew on them, but to remove the stumps would completely destroy the mounds. The park management, West Moors Country Park will allow the stumps to rot in situ.
The northerly of the two has a deep depression caused by Victorian treasure hunters.
Both are victimns of outrageous neglect, which in part, is not too late to rectify by fencing.
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