<< Our Photo Pages >> Whitsbury - Hillfort in England in Hampshire
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Iron Age and Later PrehistorySite Name: Whitsbury Alternative Name: Whitsbury Castle DitchesCountry: England
NOTE: This site is 2.791 km away from the location you searched for.
County: Hampshire Type: Hillfort
Nearest Town: Fordingbridge Nearest Village: Whitsbury
Map Ref: SU127196
Latitude: 50.975674N Longitude: 1.820483W
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 |
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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 |
2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village |
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A pear-shaped hillfort on a chalk outcrop, defended by three ramparts and two ditches, with its original entrance at the southwestern corner destroyed by the construction of a post-medieval manor house. The site has been in use throughout the ages, with excavation revealing mesolithic activity, an association with a Bronze Age ranch boundary, an Iron Age hillfort settlement, followed much later by Anglo-Saxon rennovation and reuse of the defences. [source]
Access The interior of the hillfort is privately owned and currently contains a stables. Continuing with the horsey theme, it is surrounded on three sides by public bridleways which allow close-up views of the tree-covered defences.
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