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Photo Pages: Ibsley Common barrows - Barrow Cemetery in England in Hampshire
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Submitted by thecaptain on Wednesday, 19 April 2006 Page Views: 2923
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 Site Name: Ibsley Common barrows Country: England County: Hampshire Type: Barrow Cemetery
Nearest Town: Ringwood Nearest Village: Mockbeggar
Map Ref: SU172106
Latitude: 50.894628N Longitude: 1.756811W
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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   Ibsley Common barrows submitted by thecaptain
Bronze age barrow cemetery on Ibsley Common plateau, at the western edge of the New Forest.
Several bowl barrows are to be found up on this high (relatively) plateau top, along with a disc barrow and a saucer barrow. Most of the bowl barrows are these days fairly insignificant, and not much more is to be seen other than a slight bump under a clump of gorse. However, the disc barrow is very clearly to be seen, largely because it is under a little plantation of trees (known as Robin Hood's Clump), nicely situated right on the western edge of the plateau, with splendid views in almost all directions.
The barrows are Scheduled Monuments and more information can be found in this extract from English Heritage's record of scheduled monuments.
 Ibsley Common barrows submitted by JimChampion
The Ibsley Common disc barrow at grid reference SU17171064, and its topping of Scots pine trees (known as Robin Hood's clump). This barrow is very easy to locate on a western spur treeless plateau. Its English Heritage scheduling describes it as being a disc shaped platform, raised 0.15m, surrounded by a low raised rim and a shallow outer ditch. I've deliberately over-exposed the picture so that t
 Ibsley Common barrows submitted by JimChampion
The very indistinct bowl barrow at grid ref SU17701056 is in the foreground, with the plateau of Ibsley Common beyond. I was only able to locate it because it is covered with dead bracken and new green shoots of bracken, whereas the surrounding plateau is covered with heather (and not bracken). There must be a reason for the different vegetation on the barrow.
 Ibsley Common barrows submitted by JimChampion
Honestly, its a bowl barrow. Located on Dorridge Hill at grid reference SU17881161, it is 12m in diameter and less than 1m high. Its northeast edge (on the left) is being worn away by users of this track across Ibsley Common. The English Heritage scheduling notes say that it is constructed of compacted gravel.
 Ibsley Common barrows submitted by thecaptain
On the western edge of the New Forest plateau above the river Avon is this fine disc barrow with splendid views in all directions.
This is the view towards the northeast.
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Re: Ibsley Common barrows (Score: 1)
by mishkin on Saturday, 06 May 2006
(User Info | Send a Message) | | Ibsley Common Barrows are, I see, 250 metres from Cuckoo Hill, where Heywood Sumner, artist and archaeologist lived, and drew all the landscapes round there. Barry Cunliffe wrote a book about him which I found in my local library" Heywood Sumner's Wessex", he did a beautiful painting of the roman potters coming out of the woods with their ponies - panniers filled with pottery. | [ Reply to This ]
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Re: Ibsley Common barrows (Score: 1)
by JimChampion on Saturday, 06 May 2006
(User Info | Send a Message) | Yes, that book is an interesting read with some of Sumner's very beautiful and distinctive illustrations. (Would be nice to have some of them here for reference, but I'm not sure of the copyright implications).
There are a number at this website:
http://www.fulltable.com/vts/aoi/s/sumner/s.htm
including the Setley Plain intersecting disc barrows. | [ Reply to This ]
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Re: Ibsley Common barrows (Score: 1)
by myrrdin on Sunday, 25 February 2007
(User Info | Send a Message) | | Hi. interesting and helpful comments but a little confusion over the differing map refernces. The map I'm using is Explorer series OL22, and grid ref is 172106. | [ Reply to This ]
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