<< Our Photo Pages >> Castle Hill (Southampton) - Misc. Earthwork in England in Hampshire
Submitted by SolarMegalith on Friday, 18 November 2011 Page Views: 6674
Multi-periodSite Name: Castle Hill (Southampton)Country: England County: Hampshire Type: Misc. Earthwork
Nearest Town: Southampton
Map Ref: SU40571688
Latitude: 50.949933N Longitude: 1.423838W
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 |
5 | Superb |
4 | Good |
3 | Ordinary |
2 | Not Good |
1 | Awful |
0 | No data. |
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 | 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: 4 Access: 3
An Iron Age cattle enclosure or a small hillfort is located NW from centre of Southampton, near Chilworth Common. Area of the enclosure is covered by forest. The best preserved parts of earthworks are the NE and southern ones.
I agree that the site is more likely to be an Iron Age cattle enclosure then a hillfort - width of the embankment is limited, even considering that it is partly leveled, it rather was not big enough to be a fortification. Remains of the ditch are distinguishable in NE and southern part of the enclosure.
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