Monument Number 232491 |
| Hob Uid: 232491 | |
Location :
Hampshire
Basingstoke and Deane
Ecchinswell, Sydmonton and Bishops Green, Burghclere, Litchfield and Woodcott
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| Grid Ref : SU4652055130 |
| Summary : 2 Bronze Age linear earthworks, surviving in places as slight bank and ditch, running along the western edge of Great Litchfield Down and up to Ladle Hill (see also SU 45 15). Scheduled. |
More information : [SU 47975690 to SU 46525513] An earthwork of the boundary ditch type [See SU 24 SE 13] begins at the bottom of a small valley, runs along the western edge of Great Litchfield Down and onto Ladle Hill where it curves round the nose of the
hill to die out on the north east it is a bank and ditch of slight
profile (average measurements - CD vert. c.2 feet overall
horizontal 20 feet) in part it was used at a setting out ditch for
the hill fort which it herefore pre-dates. (1)
[SU 480556950] to SU 48125621]
East of the hill fort a boundary ditch of slighter profile runs
1200 yards towards HARE WARREN DOWN where it dies out. Its northern end is on the edge of the very sleep slope of the down.
Visible on A.P.'s from SU 46525512 to SU 47975690, SU 48035693 to SU 48125620 and with a short stretch from SU 48085655 to SU 47885646. (2)
Description of Piggott still correct. The work has been
destroyed by ploughing from SU 48025680 southwards to SU
48125620 and SU 47885646 but survives elsewhere as a slight ditch with bank on west side, c 8 metres in overall width.
Surveyed at 1/2500. (3)
2 Bronze Age linear earthworks which run along the edge of Great Licthfield Down past Ladle Hill hillfort (see SU 45 NE 15). Scheduled. (4) |