Hampshire Treasures
Volume 5 ( New Forest)
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| Description and Date | Remarks | Protection | Grid Ref. and Punchcard No. | |
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| Flanged Bronze Axe |
Crescentic, with well-beaten flanges and an incipient stopridge. Probably found in clay pits located at eastern extremity of lower Court Wood. Exhibited at the Pitts-Rivers Museum. O.S.A. No. SU11 NW13. | SU 120 152 2404 30 |
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| Iron Age | ||||
| Settlement (Site) |
Blackheath Down. Now barely visible due to ploughing. O.S.A. No. SUO1 NE13. | SU 077 177 2404 24 |
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| Probable Cross Ridge |
Damerham Knoll, 50m. west of Knoll Camp. Comprises a shallow ditch with fragmentary remains of a bank on the west side. O.S.A. No. SU01 NE30. | SU 098 185 2404 25 |
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| Earthwork |
Knoll Camp. Early hill fort. Circular earthwork containing about four acres. Ditch with inner rampart and traces of counter scarp bank. O.S.A. No. SU01 NE26. Ref: Field Archaeology in Hampshire, 1915, (Williams-Freeman), p.400. | S.A.M. No. 118 |
SU 099 185 2404 18 |
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| Field System |
North East of Boulsbury Farm. O.S.A. No. SUO1 NE24. | SU 085 166 2404 17 |
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| Roman | ||||
| Enclosure |
Soldiers Ring'. Sited on crest in an area of Celtic fields. Probable Romano-British cattle enclosure. Centred on grid reference. O.S.A. No. SU01 NE25. | S.A.M. No. 119 |
SU 082 176 2404 08 |
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| Post Norman | ||||
| Pottery |
Potsherds from rabbit scrapes. Found in Grim's Ditch in corner of Bokerley Dyke Plantation. O.S.A. No. SU01 NE23. | SU 091 198 2404 23 |
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| Period Unknown | ||||
| Earthwork |
Grim's Ditch. Whole earthwork encloses an area of sixteen square miles. Probably delimits the holding of a large ranch of the Bronze Age. Ref: Buildings of England; Hants. and I.O.W., (Pevnser and Lloyd), p.330. | SU 090 188 2404 10 |
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| Crop Mark |
North east of Kingland Copse. Possibly a hill fort. Not visible from the ground. | SU 091 165 2404 14 |
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| Crop Marks |
South east of Stapleton Farm. Enclosed a sand pit, but all other marks have been ploughed out. O.S.A. No. SU01 SE35. | SU 094 149 2404 13 |
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