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Iron Age and Later PrehistorySite Name: Pollards Hill
Country: England
NOTE: This site is 4.954 km away from the location you searched for.
County: Greater London Type: Hillfort
Nearest Town: Mitcham  Nearest Village: Mitcham Common
Map Ref: TQ303688
Latitude: 51.403270N  Longitude: 0.128156W
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
 no data Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
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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.
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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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Fort in Greater London. According to the London Borough of Merton's web site, "there is evidence of another Celtic fort in the Pollards Hill area of Mitcham."
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TQ3068 : Pollards Hill by Derek Harper
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TQ3068 : Path down Pollards Hill by David Anstiss
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TQ3068 : Observation point, Pollards Hill by N Chadwick
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Pollards Hill Street View by Andy B on Wednesday, 25 March 2020
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Looks like a lump or bump, someone should have a look:
https://goo.gl/maps/FtG78T8N7j4LVKKr5

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Re: Mound points to prophecy by Anonymous on Sunday, 11 October 2015
Pollards hill park has a victorian font from the Henge-forget the shelter.
There were excavations for clay in the vicinity. And photos can be seen of brickmakers around Pollards Hill. The site has been involved in observation and navigation even in modern history. I once walked late to college in a straight line to Carshalton / Beddington at that age with little resources walking in a straight line was the logical thing to do. Similar to the lay line discussed certinly practical if not spiritual
I walked through common and sewerage treatment plant water still has significance. Carshalton is a historic place I never new I was walking over secret tunnels that Sir Walter Raleigh onced used-and allege haunts.
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Re: Pollards Hill by Anonymous on Tuesday, 21 August 2012
I live in Pollards Hill, not far from the council estate, is it possible the author is referring to Lilo Lil from Pollards Hill? She has been known locally, well, mainly by the men of the estate, to be quite a megalith ...
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Re: Mound points to prophecy by IronAgeDave on Tuesday, 18 May 2010
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Not sure I'm convinced with this one, if they suspect, why have they not investigated? it sounds to me they are trying to find something that isn't there.

Perhaps time team should investigate ;)
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Re: Mound points to prophecy by Andy B on Thursday, 08 September 2005
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Web link: http://www.earth-stars.com
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Mound points to prophecy by Andy B on Thursday, 08 September 2005
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From the 'clearly bonkers' department: Modern-day Pollards Hill is known more for its rows of white council houses than the mound of earth that gives it its name.

But this incline, which today is surrounded by buildings, could be a part of a prophecy that is drawn from London's landscape.

According to C E Street, the "hill top henge" is a key point in a pentagram which spans the whole of the capital's map.

In her book Earth Stars, the author writes: "Although it doesn't so far seem to have been officially recognised as an ancient monument, anyone with a keen eye for such things would immediately suspect that it might be.

"It's a roughly circular earthwork of irregular banks with a prominent mound at its highest and most northerly point.

"It may even have contained a stone circle at sometime in its history.

"Sadly, the only structure it now contains is a hideous concrete shelter that provides an unofficial gallery for the work of local graffiti artists."

Street goes onto draw lines between Pollards Hill and St Mary's Church in Beddington and St Mary's Church in Addiscombe, making a near equilateral triangle, which forms an important part of the pentagram.

Other nearby sites intersected by the lines of the diagram include Caesar's Camp on Wimbledon Common, St Leonard's Church in Streatham, St Anthony's Hospital and the top of Richmond Hill.

More http://www.thisislocallondon.co.uk/news/headlines/display.var.627369.0.mound_points_to_prophecy.php
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