<< Our Photo Pages >> Shirley Holms - Round Barrow(s) in England in Hampshire
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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Shirley HolmsCountry: 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:
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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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.
JimChampion have visited here
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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