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<< Our Photo Pages >> Knaves Ash barrow - Round Barrow(s) in England in Hampshire

Submitted by JimChampion on Tuesday, 17 July 2007  Page Views: 6812

Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Knaves Ash barrow Alternative Name: Kaveneburgh
Country: England
NOTE: This site is 1.928 km away from the location you searched for.

County: Hampshire Type: Round Barrow(s)
Nearest Town: Ringwood  Nearest Village: Burley Street
Map Ref: SU18430396
Latitude: 50.834881N  Longitude: 1.739654W
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
3 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
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Knaves Ash barrow
Knaves Ash barrow submitted by JimChampion : A view of the eastern side of the barrow, from the Burley parish side. The barrow mound (if that is what it is) sits on top of a sandy knoll, overlooking Strodgemoor Bottom. (Vote or comment on this photo)
Probable Bronze Age round barrow in Hampshire, more recently used as a boundary mound.

The parish boundary between Ringwood (to the west) and Burley (to the east) follows a straight line between Lugden Barrow and this site, the Knaves Ash barrow. It is a good example of prehistoric mounds being used to define more modern boundaries - and here the boundary crosses the 'wasteland' of heath and bog, now recognised as a National Nature Reserve.

The Hampshire Treasures online resource (which is organised by parish) mentions this tumulus twice: once in the Bronze Age Ringwood section where it is described as a large circular mound... possibly incorporating a barrow; and once in the Bronze Age Burley section where it is described as a ditch-less barrow 24 metres in diameter and 1.9 metres high. The earliest record of the mound is in the 1289 perambulations of Edward I, where it was called Kaveneburgh. ["Perambulation" is an old term for the legal boundary of the New Forest, which was a royal hunting ground from Norman times onward].

The barrow mound has a small boundary stone set into its summit (inscribed with a barely legible date), and a rather pointless barbed wire fence divides it in two (with a road to to the north and a gap for a path to the south of the mound).

Access The barrow mound is alongside the Crow-Burley Street road, now covered with tall pine trees. Nearest convenient parking is at the Smugglers' Road car park a little further down the road towards Burley.
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Knaves Ash barrow
Knaves Ash barrow submitted by JimChampion : Southern side of the barrow, showing the boundary fence and pine trunks sprouting from the mound. To the right of the fence is Burley parish (and the traditional edge of the New Forest) and to the left is Ringwood parish. I'm not sure what purpose the fence serves, as there is a path through a gap in the foreground, and an east-west road on the far side. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Knaves Ash barrow
Knaves Ash barrow submitted by JimChampion : View towards the north side of the barrow from the nearby road - not favourable light in this picture. The mound has many large pine trees growing from it, casting deep shadow on this bright afternoon. The boundary fence and small boundary stone can be seen on the barrow, in silhouette. This side of the barrow is in Ringwood parish, at the northern end of the Kingston Great Common NNR (national n... (Vote or comment on this photo)

Knaves Ash barrow
Knaves Ash barrow submitted by JimChampion : Close-up of the modern boundary stone set into the summit of the barrow mound. It has some letters and a date (19th century?) carved into it, but they have been weathered. There are several other boundary stones on the parish boundary between here and Lugden Barrow about 2 km to the south. The boundary is not just between the parishes of Burley and Ringwood, but also defines the old 'perambulation... (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Nearby Images from Geograph Britain and Ireland:
SU1803 : Boundary fence on Knaves Ash barrow, New Forest by Jim Champion
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SU1803 : Parish boundary marker on Knaves Ash barrow, New Forest by Jim Champion
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SU1803 : Vales Moor, tumulus by Mike Faherty
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SU1803 : Old Boundary Marker near Knaves Ash, Ringwood Parish by Milestone Society
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SU1804 : Vales Moor, gate by Mike Faherty
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