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Dogmersfield Stones - Hants

Submitted by Anonymous on Wednesday, 05 December 2001  Page Views: 11321

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I have found some standing stones in Winchfield, Spratts Hatch Lane. It would be interesting to know what their history is.

You go from Hartley Wintney along Church Lane, follow the road over the motorway into Winchfield, over the crossroads towards Dogmersfield. Opposite the "Barley Mow" in Winchfield, Hampshire is Spratts Hatch Lane on your right. Go over the canal, follow the lane for about 300 yds or so until you see on your right a beautiful restored barn and a big park-like garden with lots of animals in there. One stone is right next to the lane hidden behind a big tree, about were the pylon is (you see it better when you turn round and come up the lane), the second one inside the field on your right a little bit further down, easy to see. You can't miss them.

Can anyone tell me anything about them????


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Re: Dogmersfield Stones - Hants by Anonymous on Tuesday, 10 January 2023
I managed to capture the sun on the last standing stone at this location I'm sure they are aligned to the sunset https://youtu.be/XiB920E3HtM
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Re: Dogmersfield Stones - Hants by Anonymous on Saturday, 26 November 2022
I owned a woodland at spratts hatch lane and did some research into the stones and found somewhere an article claiming that during demolition in aldershot of Victorian housing there were some of these stones underneath the foundations
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Re: Dogmersfield Stones - Hants by Anonymous on Friday, 07 March 2014
They have "crows feet" markings chiselled in them usually a sign they have a muilitary/War office connection.
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Re: Dogmersfield Stones - Hants by Anonymous on Monday, 24 December 2007
Take a careful look as you walk along Sprats Hatch lane from the Barley Mow pub- there are several more to your left hidden in the trees. Largish - 5 foot or so above ground level - Also there is another at the edge of the road by the bend towards Dogmersfield, and another fallen down in a small copse across the fields towards Pilcot farm, about 0.5 mile away. Very curious. They seem to have once been used as boundary stones - they allegedly follow the track of the old parish boundary though I've not verified this. But did they previously form some other structure or were they merely cleared from farmland? It's surely worth more careful research by someone.
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    Re: Dogmersfield Stones - Hants by Anonymous on Tuesday, 10 January 2023
    The Stones I believe align with the Sunset this certainly happened during sunset yesterday 9 /1/2023 I have posted on YouTube see the last stone light up during around sun set .

    https://youtu.be/UHp56KO7x-E
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Re: Dogmersfield Stones - Hants by Anonymous on Sunday, 27 May 2007
Hi I can't tell you anything about the stones as nobody I've asked seems to know however there are three stones along the lane, 2 on the west side and another one on the east side. There is also another stone in the woods on the east side set about 30 yards from the lane only really visble in the winter.

At the Barley Mow end of the lane are what look like broken stones set at the edge of the road. The stones are certainly not local, they look like marlborough down stone they may have been brought by the canal or may be connected to the original dogmerfield house which lies beyond the end of spratts hatch lane.

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Re: Dogmersfield Stones - Hants by Anonymous on Tuesday, 16 November 2004
No idea where the stones came from but there are at least 2 more along the old coach road in the private woods 200 yards to the left of spratts hatch lane you mentioned.

I believe the coach road I mention was an old road from the monastery on the opposite side of tundry Pond. The road came from the monastery,over the bridge across tundry pond, across the fields, though the woods towards the bridge at the Barley Mow public house. This was a favourite walk until the new landowner fenced the area off and now does his best to keep the public out.
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Re: Dogmersfield Stones - Hants by Anonymous on Monday, 22 October 2001
They are boundary stones, unfortunately.
I checked yesterday (21st October 2001) and the stones are marked on the 1:25,000 OS map as 'BSs' (Boundary Stones). They follow some of the parish boundary of Winchfield. I think they may be related to a boundary dispute some time before c.1850. I state this as stones are not normally set up at parish boundaries in these parts (main reason is that such good stone does not occur naturally very often). There had to be some good reason to set up 1/2 ton stones (abount 5 feet high) in a row (I saw 6 but they continue) - and a boundary dispute would be the most obvious reason. I use the date 1850 as there are OS bench marks on some of them - dating to when the OS mappers would have first found them. The Basingstoke canal (completed 1792) is only yards away so the stone could have been transported to here after then.

It would be nice to think they belong to an earlier era but in this case I doubt it. The only factor that could influence...

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Re: Dogmersfield Stones - Hants by Anonymous on Friday, 27 July 2001
I made the mistake once of thinking that a group of stones in the corner of a field near Lambourn, berks was an "undiscovered" monument (it wasnt marked on the OS map). Only to find later after contacting the county archaeologist, making several trips to the site and speaking to several locals that it was just a pile of stones! The farmer told me that it was all the sarcens that he had hit with his plough over the years and had just dragged them to the side of his field.

Glory beckoned for one bright minute...

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    Re: Dogmersfield Stones - Hants by Anonymous on Friday, 21 September 2001
    I have recently found something unusual nearby at Mapledurwell: three large boulders (each in a different property, ruling out a farmer moving sarcens to the side, or other organised clearance). There was a Priory nearby, and so they could be reused from that site (but reused for what?)... the stones are about two feet in diameter, and 18 ins to 2 feet showing above ground. They are all within 20 yards of the central crossroads (on the side of the river) in Mapledurwell, Hampshire. It is definitely a former stone circle!

    If I want to check it with English Heritage as per comments above, how do I submit the grid reference - by email? - or is there a central site? Or do I phone?

    Cheers
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      Re: Dogmersfield Stones - Hants by Anonymous on Saturday, 15 November 2008
      Hi All!
      I thought I should send another comment in as I am now at the email address of [email protected]. I haven't any more to add to the report above other than the stones are still there... There is a roman about 150 yards away. Other sarcens are found on the lane leading to this road (of which no traces remain above ground). Most stones are sited on property boundaries going up towards Tunworth Down from the centre of Mapledurwell. The name apparently means the pool or spring of the maple trees. This would be a pre-norman name but post celtic. The spring referred to, however is rather more interesting: it is right next to the church. In fact the church yard edges on to it, and the pool is still there, with trees around it, though I don't know whether they are maples!
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Re: Dogmersfield Stones - Hants by riotgibbon on Wednesday, 18 July 2001
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do you have a grid reference? If you can get one, contact English Heritage's record department, explain what you've found, and see if they have a record.

Or your library should have the list of scheduled Ancient Monuments ...

RG
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