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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Farley MountCountry: England
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County: Hampshire Type: Round Barrow(s)
Nearest Town: Winchester Nearest Village: Hursley
Map Ref: SU403290
Latitude: 51.058932N Longitude: 1.42634W
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 |
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-1 | Completely destroyed |
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4 | Good |
3 | Ordinary |
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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 |
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5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
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MartinJEley visited on 1st Jan 1970 - their rating: Cond: 2 Amb: 4 Access: 3 I have visited this many times in the past, including one visit on horseback.
JimChampion have visited here
The Hampshire Treasures resource classes this site as a Bronze Age bowl barrow, with the brief description "Obelisk erected on top of barrow". Other sources are not so certain as to whether the mound was originally a barrow. Its location on a high point on the chalk downland is typical for Hampshire round barrows, and there are several other Bronze Age barrows nearby. This is, of course, circumstantial evidence: more substantial proof is lacking due to the more modern modifications to the site.
If this is indeed a Bronze age burial site, then it underwent an unusual (and somewhat belated) secondary burial in the 18th century in the form of a racehorse called "Chalk Pit". Its owner had a 10 metre high pyramid build over the top of the grave to commemorate the horse that probably saved his life and certainly brought him financial gain. In the words of the plaque on the monument: Underneath lies buried a horse, the property of Paulet St John Esq, that in the month of September 1733 leaped into a chalk pit twentyfive feet deep a foxhunting with his master on his back. And in October 1734 he won the Hunters Plate on Worthy Downs and was rode by his owner and entered in the name of "Beware Chalk Pit".
The Farley Mount Country Park website says that "part of the [recent] repair work included a resistivity survey of the mound ... to see if there was a void, or disturbance, where the horse may have been buried. Nothing of interest was found." Presumably this means that nothing prehistoric was found either.
Access The mound lies within the Farley Mount country park, managed by Hampshire County Council, and is open to the public at all times. Stop at the "Monument car park" on the southern side of the narrow lane that runs E-W through the park. Head up the Clarendon Way footpath and the site is obvious from the gleaming white pyramid on top of the mound (which can be seen from many miles away on a clear day).
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