Hampshire Treasures
Volume 6 ( East Hampshire)
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| Description and Date | Remarks | Protection | Grid Ref. and Punchcard No. | |
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| Area of Ecological Interest |
Broxhead Common. Heathland and developing woodland on Folkestone beds in the western weald area includes spur of mature heath dominated by heather and gorse. Also areas of birch and oak woodland. The whole area supports many characteristic heathland organisms. | N.P. Act S.S.S.I. |
SU 804 374 1610 111 |
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| Trees |
Land adjoining Beech Hill, Coppice Knoll, Headley Down. Two limes and two beech standing in area centred on grid reference. | T.P.O. No. 73 E. H. D. |
SU 826 361 1610 112 |
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| Trees |
Headley Hill Road. Coniferous and deciduous trees consisting of mixed firs, scots pine, silver birch and oaks. Centred on grid reference. | T.P.O. No. 78 E. H. D. |
SU 832 364 1610 113 |
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| Woodland |
Fairlawn, Furze Hill Road, Headley Down. Mixed deciduous and coniferous trees consisting of birch, beech, hornbeam, lawsons cypresses, scots pine and one red oak. | T.P.O. No. 84 E. H. D. |
SU 842 357 1610 114 |
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| Trees |
Headley Fields. Five sequoia standing along the frontage of 'Mayfield House' and one in the garden of 'Leighswood'. | T.P.O. No. 48 E. H. D. |
SU 821 359 1610 115 |
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| Fossil Beds |
Headley Farm Pit, Southwest of Headleywood Farm. The best known section of fossiliferous Puttenham Beds. | N. P. Act S.S.S.I. |
SU 814 373 1610 103 |
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| Group B - Archaeological Sites and Remains | ||||
| Stone Age | ||||
| Occupation and Flint Working |
Group of Mesolithic sites at Trottsford, Sleaford. Finds include narrow-blade cores, microliths, end-scrapers etc. Heathland now overgrown and farmland under cultivation. O.S.A. No. SU83 NW5. Ref: P.H.F.C., Vol. 18, 1951-3, p.157. | SU 806 380 1610 43 |
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| Bronze Age | ||||
| Implement |
Palstave found in garden near Beech Hill Social Club. Bronze, with well defined stop ridge. Now in Haslemere Educational Museum. O.S.A. No. SU83 NW7. | SU 837 364 1610 93 |
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| Bowl Barrow |
Broxhead Common. Situated on small hill. Damaged by ploughing before being put over to pasture. O.S.A. No. SU83 NW1. Ref: P.H.F.C., Vol. 14, 1938-40, p.352. | S.A.M. No. 76 |
SU 807 381 1610 42 |
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| Stone Bowl |
Picketts Hill Farm. Old bowl, possibly for grinding corn, used for many years as feeding trough for chickens. Reputed to be of Saxon date. Formerly at Trottsford Farm. | SU 821 382 1610 67 |
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