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Description and DateRemarksProtectionGrid Ref. and
Punchcard No.
Iron Age/Romano-British
Potsherds
 Hook Copse. Belgic and Roman pottery and Celtic horseshoe found in chalk wells or deneholes. O.S.A. No. SU45 NW12.     N. P. Act
A.O.N.B.
 SU 435 555
2110 25
Earthwork and Fieldway
 Great Litchfield Down. Enclosures reduced by ploughing to faint banks and terraces. Insufficient evidence to classify as settlement. O.S.A. No. SU45 SE23. Ref: 1. Field Archaeology as Illustrated by Hants, (Williams-Freeman), pp.80-2, 424-5. Ref: 2. R.A.F. A.P.s CPE/UK/1931/4114-5.     N.P. Act
A.O.N.B.
 SU 469 549
2110 14
Earthwork (Site)
 Great Litchfield Down. Area now tree planted and no trace of original features remain. Believed to have been a 'circus'. O.S.A. No. SU45 SE1.     N.P. Act
A.O.N.B.
 SU 471 549
2110 09
Post Norman
Partly Depopulated Hamlet
 South of Litchfield Farm. Sites of crofts and enclosures. Aerial photographs show series of hollow-ways descending north slope of Angle Down - apparent predecessor to modern road. O.S.A. No. SU45 SE5. Ref: V.C.H., Vol. 4, p.267.     N.P. Act
A.O.N.B.
 SU 461 536
2110 11
Deserted Mediaeval Village (Site)
 Woodcott. Upper Woodcott Farm. Hundred = Pastrow. O.S.A. No. SU45 SW6. Ref: 1. V.C.H., Vol. 1, p. 499. Ref: 2. V.C.H., Vol. 4, pp.327, 331-2.     N.P. Act
A.O.N.B.
 SU 433 548
2110 28
Enclosure
 North of Woodcott House. Subrectangular entrenchment, almost certainly a ring-motte. Probably represents dry equivalent of domestic moated enclosures. O.S.A. No. SU45 SW5. Ref: 1. Field Archaeology as Illustrated by Hants, p.242. Ref: 2. P.H.F.C., Vol. 1, 1885-9, (Shore), p.26.     S.A.M. No. 291
N.P. Act
A.O.N.B.
 SU 441 545
2110 22
Group C - Footpaths, Bridleways and Old Travelways
Old Travelway
 Course of Roman road (Portway) Silchester to Dorchester forming the south east boundary of the parish. Centred on grid reference.     N.P. Act
A.O.N.B.
 SU 470 527
2110 29
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