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Rollright Stones
Date Added: 19th Sep 2010
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: England (Oxfordshire)
Visited: Yes on 17th Feb 2005
Rollright Stones submitted by JimChampion on 17th Feb 2005. February 2005. A worms-eye view looking north into the King's Men circle. Lovely winter morning sunshine on a somewhat eerie site.
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Old Winchester Hill hillfort
Date Added: 19th Sep 2010
Site Type: Hillfort
Country: England (Hampshire)
Visited: Yes on 19th Feb 2005
Old Winchester Hill hillfort submitted by JimChampion on 19th Feb 2005. February 2005, looking north at the southern aspect of Old Winchester Hill. The recently-ploughed fields show the underlying chalk in this region. In his ebooklet Andy Barrett suggests that the name of this hillfort is a corruption of the Celtic "Gwynchester" meaning White City, after the appearance of the chalky ramparts when it was first constructed.
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Old Winchester Hill barrow cemetery
Date Added: 19th Sep 2010
Site Type: Barrow Cemetery
Country: England (Hampshire)
Visited: Yes on 19th Feb 2005
Old Winchester Hill barrow cemetery submitted by JimChampion on 19th Feb 2005. February 2005. View of the rare double-disk barrow (centred on grid reference SU63902059) found just outside the western entrance to the hillfort. The hill is a barrow cemetery as well as a hillfort, and the barrows pre-date the construction of the defences.
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Stocks farm long barrow
Date Added: 19th Sep 2010
Site Type: Long Barrow
Country: England (Hampshire)
Visited: Yes on 19th Feb 2005
Stocks farm long barrow submitted by JimChampion on 19th Feb 2005. View of the "Giant's grave" barrow, as close as you can get without standing on private property.
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Knowlton Rings
Date Added: 19th Sep 2010
Site Type: Henge
Country: England (Dorset)
Visited: Yes on 27th Feb 2005
Knowlton Rings submitted by JimChampion on 27th Feb 2005. February 2005. Composite image of Knowlton Henge under a heavy winter sky.
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Knap Barrow
Date Added: 19th Sep 2010
Site Type: Long Barrow
Country: England (Hampshire)
Visited: Yes on 27th Feb 2005
Knap Barrow submitted by JimChampion on 27th Feb 2005. February 2005. Longer but less prominent than the neighbouring Grans Barrow, the Knap barrow lies on a NW-SE axis. Viewed from the north-east in this composite image, on a cold winters day.
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Matley Heath
Date Added: 19th Sep 2010
Site Type: Round Barrow(s)
Country: England (Hampshire)
Visited: Yes on 5th Mar 2005
Matley Heath submitted by JimChampion on 5th Mar 2005. March 2005. Looking northwards at the northenmost barrow of this pair, with its ditch clearly visible. Its summit has been mutilated.
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Ashurst Lodge Earthworks
Date Added: 19th Sep 2010
Site Type: Misc. Earthwork
Country: England (Hampshire)
Visited: Yes on 5th Mar 2005
Ashurst Lodge Earthworks submitted by JimChampion on 5th Mar 2005. March 2005. Not an easy-to-photograph site. This view shows the ditch on the northern side of the earthworks (that closest the river) which now supports many silver birch and beech trees.
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Shirley Holms
Date Added: 19th Sep 2010
Site Type: Round Barrow(s)
Country: England (Hampshire)
Visited: Yes on 13th Mar 2005
Shirley Holms submitted by JimChampion on 13th Mar 2005. Looking north at one of the bowl barrows in this group of four. In the foreground is a circle about 20m in diameter, worn into the chalky ground. The circle is striking but not pre-historic: most likely to be some kind of pony training circuit.
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Buckland Rings
Date Added: 19th Sep 2010
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: England (Hampshire)
Visited: Yes on 12th Mar 2005
Buckland Rings submitted by JimChampion on 12th Mar 2005. A view along the southern edge of the earthworks: the triple banks are quite densely wooded with beech and oak.
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Ashley Cross tumuli
Date Added: 19th Sep 2010
Site Type: Round Barrow(s)
Country: England (Hampshire)
Visited: Yes on 19th Mar 2005
Ashley Cross tumuli submitted by JimChampion on 19th Mar 2005. March 2005. Looking north at the round barrow at SU20631431.
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Telegraph Hill Bowl Barrow
Date Added: 19th Sep 2010
Site Type: Round Barrow(s)
Country: England (Hampshire)
Visited: Yes on 19th Mar 2005
Telegraph Hill Bowl Barrow submitted by JimChampion on 19th Mar 2005. March 2005. The Telegraph Hill bowl barrow from the south with the trees of the Telegraph Hill plantation behind.
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Clay Hill tumuli
Date Added: 19th Sep 2010
Site Type: Round Barrow(s)
Country: England (Hampshire)
Visited: Yes on 26th Mar 2005
Clay Hill tumuli submitted by JimChampion on 26th Mar 2005. March 2005. Looking north at the bowl barrow at SU235027. Much of the gorse around the barrow has been burned recently, and some of the gorse on the barrow has been cut back manually. The nearby bell barrow is only just recognisable and not at all photogenic.
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Longdown (New Forest) tumuli
Date Added: 19th Sep 2010
Site Type: Round Barrow(s)
Country: England (Hampshire)
Visited: Yes on 28th Mar 2005
Longdown (New Forest) tumuli submitted by JimChampion on 28th Mar 2005. A composite image of the bowl barrow at grid ref SU36390822, with Ipley Inclosure in the background. According to Hampshire Treaures this barrow is 9m in diameter, 0.8m high, and has a large crater mutilation. Traces of a ditch are found on the south side (the far side in the picture), noticeable because no heather grows in the ditch.
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Dorset Cursus
Date Added: 19th Sep 2010
Site Type: Cursus
Country: England (Dorset)
Visited: Yes on 31st Mar 2005
Dorset Cursus submitted by JimChampion on 31st Mar 2005. A cross-section of the southern bank of the cursus where it crosses the B3081 road (at grid ref SU018159) on Bottlebush Down. There are no such visible remains of the northern bank which crosses the road about 100m to the northwest. This slight bank is one of the few surviving parts of the neolithic cursus which once stretched for 6 miles along the undulating chalk downlands of Cranborne Chase.
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Pentridge 2
Date Added: 19th Sep 2010
Site Type: Long Barrow
Country: England (Dorset)
Visited: Yes on 31st Mar 2005
Pentridge 2 submitted by JimChampion on 31st Mar 2005. March 2005. Composite image of the Pentridge 2 long barrow(s) looking south-west from the bank of Bokerley Dyke. This is a looooong barrow, with its SE end disappearing off the edge of the photo. The site of the Dorset Cursus' north-eastern terminal is just to the right of this picture, although it was not noticeable in the young wheat.
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Pentridge 1
Date Added: 19th Sep 2010
Site Type: Long Barrow
Country: England (Dorset)
Visited: Yes on 31st Mar 2005
Pentridge 1 submitted by JimChampion on 31st Mar 2005. March 2005. Looking south at the long barrow from the bridleway on a rather misty day.
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Wyke Down henge
Date Added: 19th Sep 2010
Site Type: Henge
Country: England (Dorset)
Visited: Yes on 2nd Apr 2005
Wyke Down henge submitted by JimChampion on 2nd Apr 2005. A composite image of the larger Wyke Down henge, excavated in 1983/84. This view is looking NNW, which shows that the original entrance (in the foreground) is aligned to the SSE (as is the more recently excavated nearby henge). In the background on the right are two nearby round barrows.
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Wyke Down barrows
Date Added: 19th Sep 2010
Site Type: Round Barrow(s)
Country: England (Dorset)
Visited: Yes on 2nd Apr 2005
Wyke Down barrows submitted by JimChampion on 2nd Apr 2005. Looking east at two of the Bronze Age round barrows towards the south of the group on Wyke Down. The course of the neolithic Dorset Cursus runs between these two barrows, with the nearest barrow (grid ref SU009151) just north of the NW bank and the further barrow (grid ref SU010151) mid-way between the banks. The line of trees running across the background of the picture are growing on the Roman-built Ackling Dyke.
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Chalbury
Date Added: 19th Sep 2010
Site Type: Hillfort
Country: England (Dorset)
Visited: Yes on 4th Apr 2005
Chalbury submitted by JimChampion on 4th Apr 2005. April 2005. Looking west from the top of Chalbury hillfort, the remains of the fortifications are in the foreground. The un-natural pits in the opposite hill are very striking, and I haven't yet found an explanation of them (the OS map and google give nothing). Their grid ref is something like SY687836: anyone know what they are?
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