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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Setley Plain disc barrowsCountry: England County: Hampshire Type: Round Barrow(s)
Nearest Town: Lymington Nearest Village: Brockenhurst
Map Ref: SU29620002
Latitude: 50.798989N Longitude: 1.581072W
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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The main difference is that the Setley Plain barrows have one large central mound whereas the others on Oakley Down and at Stonehenge have a smaller mound on the flat area surrounded by the ditch and external bank. For this reason these barrows could alternatively be classed as bell barrows.
Another unusual feature of these barrows is that the pair at SU296000 are united by the intersection of their encircling banks. An old, but not ancient, linear bank tangentially touches the encircling bank of the westernmost barrow in this pair.
All three barrows were mutilated by the antiquarian Richard Warner, who in 1792 recorded the results of his top-down digging in the central mounds. He found evidence of buried cremations.
Access Setley Plain lies south of Brockenhurst, and to the west of the A337 Brockenhurst-Lymington Road. The nearest parking is to the north of the barrows on the verge of the minor road that crosses the NE corner of the plain. The barrows are on the west facing slope as the plain dips into Three Beech Bottom (where the Lymington branch line runs) and the earthworks are fairly obvious on this open heathland.
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