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| I learn something new every day around here! Could this have been the termination of the Beckhampton avenue if it went further than the Beckhampton Cove? PeteG NATIONAL MONUMENT NO: 21765 NATIONAL GRID REFERENCE(S): SU07026835 DESCRIPTION OF THE MONUMENT The monument includes an enclosure considered to be a henge, four Bronze Age round barrows and part of a Roman road on West Down, 500m south west of Fox Covert. The site is situated on a south east facing slope which looks towards the Beckhampton round barrow cemeteries. The henge was first recorded in 1743 by William Stukeley and is shown on a plan in his book `Abury a Temple of the British Druids'. Although it has now been levelled by cultivation, it survives as a buried oval ditch defining an area 66m east-west and 58m north-south. There is a break in the north east side of this circuit, visible on aerial photographs, which appears to be the entrance. Reply | with quote |  2nd November 2004ce 17:50 |
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