Hampshire Treasures
Volume 2 ( Basingstoke and Deane)
Page 105 - Ecchinswell and Sydmonton
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| Description and Date | Remarks | Protection | Grid Ref. and Punchcard No. | |
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| Group A - Natural Features | ||||
| Downland |
Watership Down. Chalk grassland on mainly northerly facing escarpment. Of bio geographical importance as the most northerly and westerly tract of chalk grassland on the Wessex chalk. The scarp face of the chalk ridge, together with Beacon Hill, is the first distinctive feature of Hampshire which visitors see when travelling south along the A34. | N. P. Act A.O.N.B. |
SU 497 571 2105 25 |
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| Chalk Stream |
Ecchinswell Road. Attractive fast running stream. Part of a complex of small ponds and streams in the area. | SU 499 595 2105 30 |
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| Geological Feature |
Hill Field Barn. Site near Nuthanger Farm of a classic boring down to the Palaeozoic floor undertaken in the 1930s to ascertain oil and gas prospects of the Kingsclere Pericline. Mentioned in the novel Watership Down by R. Adams. | N. P. Act A.O.N.B. |
SU 496 583 2105 58 |
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| Group B - Archaeological Sites and Remains | ||||
| Bronze Age | ||||
| Inhumation Burials (2) |
South of Upper Berry Wood. Burials, one crouched, one in flint grave. Flints above, below and at each end of extended burial. O.S.A. No. SU45 NE2. | SU 485 594 2105 13 |
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| Barrows (2) |
East of Ladle Hill Camp. Bell barrow with central mutilations. Inner slope of ditch remains. Saucer barrow reduced by ploughing to a low mound. O.S.A. No. SU45 NE14. Ref: 1. Ant., Vol. 5, 1931, p.485. Ref: 2. P.H.F.C., Vol. 14, 1938-40, pp.31, 37, 207, 225. | S.A.M. No. 45 N. P. Act A.O.N.B. |
SU 483 566 2105 15 |
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| Bowl Barrows (2) (Sites) |
Sydmonton Park. Area under pasture - nothing visible. O.S.A. No. SU45 NE19. Ref: P.H.F.C., Vol. 14, 1938-40, p.347. | N. P. Act A.O.N.B. |
SU 487 568 2105 16 |
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| Axe Hammer |
Sandstone axe hammer from North Sydmonton, probably of Bronze Age date. O.S.A. No. SU46 SE10. | SU 495 621 2105 56 |
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| Barrows (2) |
Nuthanger Down. Bowl barrow 17.0m average diameter and 2.0m high. Bell barrow overgrown by trees and undergrowth mutilated by rabbit burrows. O.S.A. No. SU45 NE20. Ref: P.H.F.C., Vol. 14, 1938-40, pp.207, 347. | N. P. Act A.O.N.B. |
SU 495 567 2105 17 |
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| Urn |
South-west of Gold Copse. Pottery and cinerary urn found 1934 in gravel pit. Urn in Newbury Museum. O.S.A. No. SU56 SW7. | SU 500 627 2105 20 |
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