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<< Our Photo Pages >> Shirley Holms - Round Barrow(s) in England in Hampshire

Submitted by JimChampion on Sunday, 13 March 2005  Page Views: 9147

Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Shirley Holms
Country: England
NOTE: This site is 3.814 km away from the location you searched for.

County: Hampshire Type: Round Barrow(s)
Nearest Town: Lymington  Nearest Village: Sway
Map Ref: SZ295985
Latitude: 50.785327N  Longitude: 1.582896W
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
3 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
3

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dubnicos visited on 1st Jul 2011 - their rating: Cond: 4 Amb: 4 Access: 3 Lovely spot. I remember crouching among the bracken on top of one of the barrows watching a pretty girl take her horse through its paces. :P I brought my story with me when I came back later - the place is full of inspiration as soon as you put your back to the road and look out across the Heath. The scene has coloured my vision of more inhabited parts of the New Forest in later prehistory ever since.

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Shirley Holms
Shirley Holms submitted by JimChampion : View of the most obvious barrow in this group of four, from another hidden in gorse bushes. (Vote or comment on this photo)
A grouping of four Bronze Age round barrows near the southern edge of chalky heathland in the New Forest.

The most prominent is a ditched bowl barrow, about 12m in diameter and 1m high, which has been badly mutilated by a hollow in its centre. It currently supports several holly bushes and young silver birch trees and is visible from much of the surrounding heathland.

About 100m to the west is a smaller bowl barrow, surrounded by gorse and furze bushes, but still accessible. This barrow is also mutilated at its centre, and is covered in heather, gorse and a variety of mosses. Sheltered by the surrounding bushes it is pleasantly secluded.

Access The Shirley Holms car park is 0.5km to the SE, the Setley Pond car park is 1km to the NE. A small road runs east-west just south of the site, between Sway and the A337.
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Shirley Holms
Shirley Holms submitted by SilentEarth : Photographed from the south, Sunday 20 August 2017. I will return again when the vegetation is lower. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Shirley Holms
Shirley Holms submitted by dubnicos : View of one of the bigger barrows, heading NE from the cattle grid. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Shirley Holms
Shirley Holms submitted by JimChampion : Looking north at one of the bowl barrows in this group of four. In the foreground is a circle about 20m in diameter, worn into the chalky ground. The circle is striking but not pre-historic: most likely to be some kind of pony training circuit. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Nearby Images from Geograph Britain and Ireland:
SZ2998 : Round barrows on heathland east of Shirley Holms, New Forest by Jim Champion
by Jim Champion
©2005(licence)
SZ2998 : Pathway at Shirley Holms by Mike Smith
by Mike Smith
©2013(licence)
SZ2998 : Durnstown, tumulus by Mike Faherty
by Mike Faherty
©2010(licence)
SZ2998 : Heath and Gorse at Shirley Holms by Mike Smith
by Mike Smith
©2013(licence)
SZ2998 : Durnstown, ponies by Mike Faherty
by Mike Faherty
©2010(licence)

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Re: Shirley Holms by Andy B on Friday, 09 December 2022
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More photos here from Holly Zeigler on Twitter:
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Re: Shirley Holms by coldrum on Tuesday, 30 March 2010
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Re: Shirley Holms by Anonymous on Thursday, 01 September 2005
The largest barrow in this group was used as the butt for a napoleonic (1817) artillery range! One kid telling his history teacher that he had found a canon ball in the barrow was told that that wasn't possible, later the teacher found the 1817 map proving the truth!
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