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Photo Pages: Butser Hill - Ancient Village or Settlement in England in Hampshire
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Submitted by JimChampion on Sunday, 01 May 2005 Page Views: 7647
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 Site Name: Butser Hill Country: England County: Hampshire Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Nearest Town: Petersfield
Map Ref: SU716203
Latitude: 50.977669N Longitude: 0.981497W
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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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Plateau enclosure in Hampshire
Butser Hill is a vast irregularly shaped hill whose plateau-like top was in regular use throughout prehistory. Neolithic flints and axes have been uncovered at this site, Bronze age round barrows still survive at various spots on the hill and there is also evidence of Iron Age and Romano-British field systems on the summit with defensive earthworks across the approach spurs.
Just under 4km to the south is the Butser Ancient Farm: the 'open air laboratory for archaeology' with recreations of Iron Age dwellings and farming techniques. The project started off on a northern spur of Butser Hill called Little Butser, before moving to the more convenient site near Chalton.
Access Butser Hill is a National Nature Reserve and is incorporated within the Queen Elizabeth Country Park. It has a convenient (pay and display) car park with picnic area and roundhouse-themed conveniences at the southwestern corner of the plateau: follow the roadsigns from the A3 to "Butser Hill Picnic Area". The summit is the highest point in the South Downs (270m above sea level) and offers 360 degrees of amazing views over the surrounding countryside. The modern addition to this site is a communications and air traffic control mast and its associated buildings.
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 Butser Hill submitted by JimChampion
May 2005. In the foreground is the bell barrow on the top of Butser Hill (grid ref SU71492023), an irregular mound about 30m in diameter and bisected by a footpath. It is just to the NW of the radio mast buildings on the summit of the hill. Apparently there were two more round barrows in the vicinity, but they have been levelled.
 Butser Hill submitted by JimChampion
May 2005. Three bowl barrows lie in an east-west alignment on the north-facing slope of Ramsdean Down, a northerly spur of Butser Hill. This is a view of the central barrow (grid ref SU713208) and gives an idea of its very steep location with magnificent views. Each of the three barrows are about 20m in diameter and have hollows at their centres as a result of antiquarian excavation.
 Butser Hill submitted by JimChampion
May 2005. Looking east from Beacon Hill with Butser Hill and its radio mast on the Horizon. The Meon valley lies below, and on the other side of the valley (in front of Butser Hill) is the chalk ridge which leads to Old Winchester Hill fort and barrow cemetery (off the right of this picture).
 Butser Hill submitted by JimChampion
April 2005. On the left, the bank of one of the defensive earthworks on Butser Hill. In the foreground, sheep: the hill was home to a prehistoric farm and is still grazed by livestock. Dominating the picture: a modern tribute to the Iron Age roundhouse (covered with scaffolding) which houses the toilets between the car park and picnic area. Not quite as authentic as the buildings at the nearby But
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583m NE 44° Little Butser* Ancient Village or Settlement (SU719208)
3.9km S 174° Butser Ancient Farm* Museum (SU719164)
4.5km E 71° Petersfield Heath Barrows* Barrow Cemetery (SU755225)
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9.2km E 110° Handle Down South Round Barrow(s) (SU7967815765)
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13.6km SE 116° Stoughton Long Barrows Long Barrow (SU825122)
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Re: Butser Hill (Score: 0)
by Anonymous on Friday, 12 August 2005 | Good to see such a site.
On my computer at least the words below the foreground sheep get cut off halfway through the word Butser. | [ Reply to This ]
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Re: Butser Hill (Score: 1)
by JimChampion on Friday, 12 August 2005
(User Info | Send a Message) | | Yes, on mine it gets cut off after the word "But". The images and words on this page are just thumbnails with an extract of the text - for the full wording and picture click on the thumbnail. | [ Reply to This ]
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