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<< Our Photo Pages >> Jacob's Barrow - Round Barrow(s) in England in Hampshire

Submitted by JimChampion on Monday, 29 May 2006  Page Views: 6371

Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Jacob's Barrow Alternative Name: Jacobs barrow
Country: England County: Hampshire Type: Round Barrow(s)
Nearest Town: Downton  Nearest Village: Lover
Map Ref: SU21321793
Latitude: 50.960405N  Longitude: 1.697804W
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
2 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
no data 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
4

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Jacob's Barrow
Jacob's Barrow submitted by JimChampion : Jacob's Barrow from the southwest - a very diminuitive mound and no trace of a ditch. The other side of the barrow is mutilated by a more recent boundary ditch and bank that marks the Hampshire/Wiltshire border. (Vote or comment on this photo)
Round Barrow(s) in Hampshire

English Heritage's Pastscape database says that Jacob's Barrow is a bowl barrow 13m in diameter and 0.7m high, without any traces of a surrounding ditch, and partly mutilated on its northeast side by a boundary bank [source].
This is in conflict with the Hampshire Treasures online resource which says that there are two bowl barrows south of Windyeats Farm, one of which is as described above, and the other - which it calls Jacob's barrow - is 18m in diameter and 1m high, without a ditch [source].

The mutilated barrow is marked on the 1:25000 Ordnance Survey map, although a closer look on the MAGIC map (click on the "i" icon above) shows a mound on the NE side of the fence inside and nothing on the actual boundary. The barrow on the boundary seems to have been used in the past as a boundary marker in a relatively featureless part of the open New Forest - it is the place where the three parishes of Godshill (Hampshire), Hale (Hampshire) and Redlynch (Wiltshire) meet. The area that it is in is called Golden Cross, referring to a crossing of ancient trackways here [source].

Access The barrow is (or barrows are?) on the boundary of the New Forest less than 100m SE of the entrance to Pound Bottom quarry and landfill site, beneath the 400kV power lines. Don't park on the verge of the B3080, instead use the Forestry Commission's Turf Hill car park at grid reference SU211176.
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Jacob's Barrow
Jacob's Barrow submitted by JimChampion : Jacob's barrow from the southeast. The mound has several pine trees and gorse bushes growing on it, and to the right is a boundary ditch and bank. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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SU2117 : Hale, power lines by Mike Faherty
by Mike Faherty
©2010(licence)
SU2117 : Pylon above Pound Bottom, New Forest by Jim Champion
by Jim Champion
©2006(licence)
SU2117 : B3080 at Golden Cross by Stuart Logan
by Stuart Logan
©2012(licence)
SU2117 : Power cables crossing the road at Golden Cross by David Smith
by David Smith
©2013(licence)
SU2118 : Pound Bottom sand quarry and landfill facility by Peter Facey
by Peter Facey
©2017(licence)

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