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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Cheesefoot Head Barrows
Country: England County: Hampshire Type: Barrow Cemetery
Nearest Town: Winchester
Map Ref: SU52572777
Latitude: 51.046883N  Longitude: 1.251452W
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
2 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
3 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
5

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Cheesefoot Head Barrows
Cheesefoot Head Barrows submitted by SolarMegalith : The best preserved bowl barrow (possibly Late Neolithic, not Bronze Age one ?) near Cheesefoot Head (photo taken on November 2011). (Vote or comment on this photo)
Barrow Cemetery in Hampshire

A group of three bowl barrows is located on slope of the hill east from Winchester, SE from Chilcombe. The barrows are heavily mutilated, they might be one of very few Neolithic round barrows.

Barrow A (in older reports named as C) is the most obvious one - it is still 1 m high, there are traces of a quarry ditch around it. Barrows B and C are almost completely leveled, however their area is excluded from plough. The cemetery is easy to reach, follow the public bridleway towards Telegraph Hill (another barrow near the top of it !).
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Cheesefoot Head Barrows
Cheesefoot Head Barrows submitted by SolarMegalith : The largest bowl barrow seen from the footpath (photo taken on November 2011). (Vote or comment on this photo)

Cheesefoot Head Barrows
Cheesefoot Head Barrows submitted by SolarMegalith : Barrow A (known also as barrow C) - view from the south (photo taken on November 2011). (Vote or comment on this photo)

Cheesefoot Head Barrows
Cheesefoot Head Barrows submitted by SolarMegalith : Overgrown area of mutilated barrows B and C (photo taken on November 2011). (Vote or comment on this photo)

Cheesefoot Head Barrows
Cheesefoot Head Barrows submitted by SolarMegalith : Barrow A (in older reports named as C) - view from the north (photo taken on November 2011). (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Nearby Images from Geograph Britain and Ireland:
SU5227 : South Downs Way, Winchester to Exton (47) by Basher Eyre
by Basher Eyre
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SU5227 : South Downs Way near A272 by Chris Heaton
by Chris Heaton
©2010(licence)
SU5227 : Path by Telegraph Hill leading up to Cheesefoot Head near Winchester by Colin Park
by Colin Park
©2017(licence)
SU5227 : Bridleway across Telegraph Hill by Richard Law
by Richard Law
©2015(licence)
SU5227 : Towards Cheesefoot Head from Fawley Down by Chris Wimbush
by Chris Wimbush
©2016(licence)

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