<< Our Photo Pages >> Jacob's Barrow - Round Barrow(s) in England in Hampshire
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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Jacob's Barrow Alternative Name: Jacobs barrowCountry: England County: Hampshire Type: Round Barrow(s)
Nearest Town: Downton Nearest Village: Lover
Map Ref: SU21321793
Latitude: 50.960405N Longitude: 1.697804W
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 |
5 | Superb |
4 | Good |
3 | Ordinary |
2 | Not Good |
1 | Awful |
0 | No data. |
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. |
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 |
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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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