Hampshire Treasures

Volume 2 ( Basingstoke and Deane)

Group B - Archaeological Sites and Remains (Saxon)
Description and Date:	Earthwork
Remarks:	Oliver's Battery or Priest's Croft. Large mound and irregular depression, possibly motte with double bailey. Now much reduced by ploughing. Site referred to in Saxon documents as 'The Monastic or Priest's House .... called King's Horse Croft.' Now part of village recreation ground. O.S.A. No. SU65 SE4. Ref: 1. Archaeology in the Field, 1953, (Crawford), p.196. Ref: 2. Field Archaeology as Illustrated by Hants., 1915, (Williams-Freeman), pp.311-2, 393. Plan. Ref: 3. V.C.H., Vol. 4, pp.117, 123. Ref: 4. Oldendays and Nowadays in Old Basing, (Hoare), p.14.
Protection:	C.A. S.A.M. No. 59
Grid Ref.:	SU 668 535
Punchcard No.:	1801 63

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