<< Our Photo Pages >> Knaves Ash barrow - Round Barrow(s) in England in Hampshire
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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Knaves Ash barrow Alternative Name: KaveneburghCountry: 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:
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 |
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4 | Good |
3 | Ordinary |
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1 | Awful |
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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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5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
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3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
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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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