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Submitted by JimChampion on Saturday, 30 April 2005 Page Views: 17941

Iron Age and Later PrehistorySite Name: Chilworth Ring
Country: England
NOTE: This site is 5.287 km away from the location you searched for.
County: Hampshire Type: Hillfort
Nearest Town: Southampton
Map Ref: SU413170
Latitude: 50.950960N Longitude: 1.413433W
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

1 Ambience:

5	Superb
4	Good
3	Ordinary
2	Not Good
1	Awful
0	No data.

no data Access:

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 Accuracy:

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
0	no data

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SolarMegalith visited on 18th Nov 2011 - their rating: Cond: 2 Amb: 2 Access: 5 Northern part is the most obvious and accessible one.

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**Chilworth Ring** submitted by JimChampion : Chilworth Ring was turned into a circle of expensive detached houses in the mid-twentieth century CE. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Remains of a small hillfort in Hampshire

"Small univallate hillfort consisting of bank and outer ditch with two possible entrances. The bank now forms boundary of private dwelling plots and is considerably mutilated". [source]

In other words... you can now drive to the centre of Chilworth Ring in your car because sometime in the 20th century someone thought it was necessary to build large houses over the top of this ancient monument.

Across the Chilworth valley to the west is the Iron Age earthwork known as Castle Hill within Lord's Wood. Hampshire treasures suggests that the ditch and bank are more likely to be that of a cattle enclosure than a hillfort.

Access For the Chilworth Ring simply drive to the road called Chilworth Ring. The Castle Hill earthwork is at the top of the neighbouring hill, just west of a footpath that runs north-south along the eastern edge of Lord's Wood.
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