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<< Our Photo Pages >> Castle Hill (Hampshire) - Hillfort in England in Hampshire

Submitted by JimChampion on Saturday, 15 January 2005  Page Views: 17490

Iron Age and Later PrehistorySite Name: Castle Hill (Hampshire)
Country: England County: Hampshire Type: Hillfort
 Nearest Village: Burley
Map Ref: SU199039
Latitude: 50.834293N  Longitude: 1.718783W
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
3 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
3 Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
0No data.
4 Accuracy:
5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
0no data
3

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Castle Hill (Hampshire)
Castle Hill (Hampshire) submitted by JimChampion : View towards Castle Hill across Broad Bottom. The univallate hillfort is at the northern end of the Burley ridge (towards the left) covered by trees. (Vote or comment on this photo)
Hillfort in Hampshire. Iron age (or possibly earlier) earthwork. The five acre site is surrounded by a single rampart and ditch. Parts of the interior are marshy and much of it is overgrown with oak, silver birch, holly and bracken.

The rampart is lowest on the western side where the gradient of the natural hill is steepest; it is most obvious on the south-eastern side (several metres high) where the natural defences are less formidable.

An unmetalled road (Castle Hill Lane) runs north-south through the site, with a branch to the east to provide access to a few houses to the southeast of the earthwork. There are therefore three 'entrances' to the interior, although it is not clear whether any of these are original.

The site is within the New Forest boundary, and is grazed by common stock (mostly ponies). Hampshire treasures lists the site as a Scheduled Ancient Monument (No. 226). Terry Heathcote (in "Discovering the New Forest", Halsgrove, 1997) mentions that the hill was once the legendary home of a local dragon, slain by a knight from the village of Brook; hence the name of the Green Dragon pub at Brook. The site is within the parish of Burley, whose name may be derived from the Anglo-Saxon bury which means a 'fortified place'.

Access The Castle Hill car park at SU197041 is closed at the time of writing, but there is roadside parking on the verge. Castle Hill Lane is a narrow unsurfaced lane that runs through the site, and although it is accessible to cars priority should be given to cyclists/pedestrians. It is possible to walk the perimeter on top of the rampart, although it can be boggy in places.
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Castle Hill (Hampshire)
Castle Hill (Hampshire) submitted by JimChampion : December 2005, late afternoon. Looking SSW from Castle Hill rampart over Kingston Great Common (National Nature Reserve), with the Avon valley beyond. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Castle Hill (Hampshire)
Castle Hill (Hampshire) submitted by JimChampion : January 2005. Looking up at the steep SE rampart from the ditch: this is the highest portion of the earthworks, presumably because the natural defences are only slight on this side. The eastern half of the site is covered with holly, silver birch and oak. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Castle Hill (Hampshire)
Castle Hill (Hampshire) submitted by JimChampion : January 2005. Looking at Castle Hill from Little Castle Common to the north-west. From this angle the steep natural defences can be appreciated. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Nearby Images from Geograph Britain and Ireland:
SU1903 : Footpath towards Burley by John M
by John M
©2018(licence)
SU1903 : Burley, Castle Hill Lane by Mike Faherty
by Mike Faherty
©2011(licence)
SU1903 : Castle Hill Lane, Burley, New Forest by Jim Champion
by Jim Champion
©2006(licence)
SU1904 : Ringwood Road south of Little Castle Common by Stuart Logan
by Stuart Logan
©2014(licence)
SU1904 : View from Little Castle Common, Burley Street by John Goldsmith
by John Goldsmith
©2009(licence)

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