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Photo Pages: Stockbridge Down Bowl Barrows - Round Barrow(s) in England in Hampshire
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Submitted by JimChampion on Wednesday, 26 January 2005 Page Views: 2318
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 Site Name: Stockbridge Down Bowl Barrows Country: England County: Hampshire Type: Round Barrow(s)
Nearest Town: Stockbridge
Map Ref: SU377347
Latitude: 51.110361N Longitude: 1.462844W
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 |
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Ambience:| 5 | Superb | | 4 | Good | | 3 | Ordinary | | 2 | Not Good | | 1 | Awful | | 0 | No data. |
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Access:| 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. |
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Accuracy:| 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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   Stockbridge Down Bowl Barrows submitted by JimChampion
Round Barrow(s) in Hampshire. Stockbridge Down, to the east of the town of Stockbridge, is an area of chalk downland managed by the National Trust. As it says on the information board at the site's car park you find "history all around you". There are many Bronze Age bowl barrows on the 160 acre site, with the largest being several metres across but only one or two feet high. Fourteen of these barrows are protected as Scheduled Ancient Monuments, and some have been fenced in. The Hampshire Treasures online resource says that excavation of these barrows in 1939 revealed an inhumation and a copper awl, and a cremation with an urn, awl and beads.
Access Car park is at grid-ref SU388345, at the south-east corner of the National Trust land. Turn left into the car park off the B3049 about 2 miles east of Stockbridge. Paths criss-cross the downland from this point and the larger tumuli are obvious from their protective fences. Also at this site are an Iron Age field-boundary earthwork and the ramparts of Woolbury Iron Age hillfort.
 Stockbridge Down Bowl Barrows submitted by JimChampion
In the foreground, the bowl barrow at grid ref. SU37773473. In the distance on top of a knoll is the bowl barrow at grid ref. SU37533484. Both are surrounded by fences in an effort to preserve them from the feet/hooves of curious visitors to the Down.
 Stockbridge Down Bowl Barrows submitted by JimChampion
Bowl barrow at grid ref. SU37533484 in silhouette against the sky. There are a number of such barrows scattered across Stockbridge Down. This one has a prominent position on a knoll, although its mound is only about half a metre high.
 Stockbridge Down Bowl Barrows submitted by JimChampion
Bowl barrow at grid ref. SU37533484, surrounded by a hurdle fence to keep walkers/ridden horses off.
 Stockbridge Down Bowl Barrows submitted by JimChampion
Looking south on Stockbridge Down. One of the less well preserved round barrows is in the foreground, covered with scrub, and the hurdles surrounding a better preserved specimen can be seen just behind and to the right. This part of the down is carpeted with reddish-brown flowers.
 Stockbridge Down Bowl Barrows submitted by JimChampion
January 2005. One of the larger bowl barrows on Stockbridge Down, probably the easiest to find as it is completely encircled by a wooden fence on its own in the middle of the open downland.
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