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Description and DateRemarksProtectionGrid Ref. and
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Group B - Archaeological Sites and Remains
Stone Age
Implements
 South east of Cocksford Down. Many Neolithic, Mesolithic and Palaeolithic flint implements found including arrowheads, axes, scrapers, microliths and paleoliths. Finds in Basingstoke Museum. O.S.A. No. SU54 SW18. Ref: P.H.F.C., Vol. 9, 1922, p.180.     SU 543 441
1820 03
Implement
 Dunley Hill. Surface find of Neolithic polished flint axe. Now in Basingstoke Museum. O.S.A. No. SU54 SE22.     SU 555 429
1820 10
Bronze Age
Bowl Barrows (2)
 North of Bittley Copse. Part of polished axe, a flaked knife and various scrapers found in the area. O.S.A. No. SU54 SE9. Ref: P.H.F.C., Vol. 8, 1918, p.249.     SU 569 435
1820 08
Iron Age
Iron Age Celtic Fields
 Helliers Copse. Two lynchets can be seen in the copse. Outside the copse they are under plough and no extension of the system is visible. O.S.A. No. SU54 SE4. Ref: R.A.F. A.P.s CPE/UK/1973/4021-2, 2332/5132-3.     SU 565 448
1820 07
Iron Age/Romano-British
Occupation Site
 West of West Farm. Finds include two skeletons, flints, bones, bronze implements and a vessel. O.S.A. No. SU54 SW19. Ref: 1. V.C.H., Vol. 1, p.306. Ref: 2. P.H.F.C., Vol. 8, 1917-19, p.252.     SU 549 440
1820 04
Roman
Building (Site)
 East of Popham Vicarage. Flint foundations, tiles, pottery sherds, coin and buckle-plate found in hollow at the junction of three deep valleys. O.S.A. No. SU54 SE2. Ref: P.H.F.C., Vol. 9, 1920-5, p.287.     SU 556 429
1820 06
Post Norman
Mediaeval Village (Site)
 Popham. Deserted sometime during the C.15 with a short-lived repopulation sometime during the C.18/19. Site much affected by road development. Hundred = Bermondspit. O.S.A. No. SU54 SE1. Ref: 1. Roman Roads in Great Britain, Vol. 1, 1955, (Margary), p.82. Ref: 2. V.C.H., Vol. 1, pp.418, 389, 397-9. Ref: 3. Deserted Mediaeval Village Research Group, 18th Annual Report, (1970) 15, 1972-3.     SU 557 438
1820 05
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