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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Old Winchester Hill barrow cemeteryCountry: England
NOTE: This site is 0.873 km away from the location you searched for.
County: Hampshire Type: Barrow Cemetery
Map Ref: SU64062055
Latitude: 50.980803N Longitude: 1.088838W
Condition:
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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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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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The chalk spur named Old Winchester Hill is the site of a Bronze Age barrow cemetery, pre-dating the Iron Age hillfort on the same site. The barrows are aligned in three groups - east-west along the central spine of the spur, north-south to the west of the hillfort and east-west along the false crest of the hill (partly overlain by the southern counterscarp bank of the hillfort). None of the barrows are in perfect condition as they have been disturbed by the construction of the hillfort, ploughing, antiquarian digging, animal burrows, and more recently by visitor pressure and mortar bombardment during Second World War artillery training on the hill.
The most prominent group of barrows lie on the central spine of the spur, within the Iron Age hillfort. Going from west to east...
- Bowl barrow at grid reference SU64042056. Mound 2m high and 26m diameter. Large central hollow. Ditch 2-5m wide and 0.5m deep.
- Bowl barrow at grid reference SU64082055. Mound 2m high and 18m diameter. Depression at centre from antiquarian digging. Infilled surrounding ditch.
- Bowl barrow at grid reference SU64112053. Mound 1.5m high and 18m diameter. Hollow centre, appears lowered and spread. Infilled surrounding ditch.
- Possible pond barrow at grid reference SU64132053. Circular depression 1.5m deep and 13m diameter. Surrounded by slight bank, 0.2m high and 2 to 4m wide.
Another barrow group lies just to the west of the hillfort's western counterscarp bank. They have all been lowered and spread by ploughing. From north to south...
- Neolithic oval barrow at grid reference SU63912065. Pear-shaped mound 1.2m high, 25m long, 12m wide. Infilled ditch on all sides except north. The oldest barrow on the hill.
- Bowl barrow at grid reference SU639?206?. Mound 0.3m high and 14m diameter. Infilled surrounding ditch.
- Bowl barrow at grid reference SU63912065. Mound 1.2m high and 17m diameter, with hollow centre. Infilled surrounding ditch.
- Possible saucer barrow at grid reference SU63902062. Central mound 0.5m high and 15m wide, with a narrow berm on the northern side. Surrounded by a ditch and outer bank which partly underlies the counterscarp bank of hillfort and mound of the barrow to the south.
- Double-disc barrow at grid reference SU63902059. Two low mounds, both 0.5m high and 10m diameter on an oval platform with ditch to east and west. Hollows at centre of both mounds.
- Bowl barrow at grid reference SU63882061, just to the west of the above alignment. Low central mound 0.4m high and 14m diameter. Surrounded by an infilled ditch.
There are several barrows protruding from the southern counterscarp bank of the hillfort.
- Bowl barrow at grid reference SU64102045(?), semicircular mound protrudes, 0.7m high and 22m in diameter.
- Bowl barrow at grid reference SU64142044(?), 30m to the east of the above. Semicircular mound protrudes, 0.6m high and 22m in diameter.
- Bowl barrow 20m further on to the east of the above, mound 0.3m high and 11m in diameter.
- Saucer barrow at grid reference SU64292044, on the same alignment as the above three barrows. Destroyed by ploughing, but visible as soil-mark at south-east corner of hillfort.
- Bowl barrow at grid reference SU64322047, destroyed by ploughing but visible as a soil-mark just to the north-east of the above saucer barrow.
Information from English Heritage's monument scheduling for Old Winchester Hill [link], Pastscape's national historic environment database [link], and the Hampshire Treasures online resource [link]. For searching purposes, the barrows lie in two Hampshire parishes: "Corhampton and Meonstoke" and "Exton". Grid references obtained from MAGIC map [link] and the Google and Microsoft VE aerial photographs on flashearth.com
[link].
Access Old Winchester Hill is one of Natural England's National Nature Reserves. For more detail about visiting the site see the Old Winchester Hill NNR webpage.
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