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Moody's Down Long Barrow No image available Also known as: Monument No. 231612 Moodys Down South East and South West Nearest Town: Andover (10km WNW) OS Ref (GB):     SU433386 / Sheet: 185 Latitude: 51° 8' 40.04" N Longitude:     1° 22' 51.38" W Added by jimit Fieldnotes (1) Miscellaneous (1) 0 discussions Start a topic Show  |  Hide Web searches for Moody's Down Flickr Google Google Images MAGIC The Megalithic Portal Bing Stone Pages Streetmap.co.uk Wikipedia

- Sites within 20 km - - Barton Stacey Barrows (0.54km ESE) (1 post) Moody’s Down Farm (0.73km W) (2 posts) Newton Down Farm (1.51km W) (2 posts) Chilbolton Down Long Barrow (1.56km WSW) (1 post) Crawley Clump West Barrows (2.44km SE) (4 posts) Crawley Clump East Barrows (2.55km SE) (3 posts) Chilbolton Round Barrows (3.09km WSW) (1 post) Leckford Barrows (3.79km WSW) (1 post) South Wonston South-west Long Barrow (4.02km ESE) (5 posts) Andyke (4.06km NNW) (4 posts) South Wonston North Long Barrow (4.2km E) (3 posts) Little Somborne Hillfort (4.38km WSW) (1 post) Heardulfes Hlaewe (4.39km WSW) (1 post) Kitson’s Clumps (4.42km ENE) (1 post) Littleton House Bowl Barrow (4.54km SE) (2 posts) New Farm (4.62km WSW) (1 post) South Wonston Long Barrow (4.7km E) (6 posts) South Wonston East Long Barrow (4.81km E) (2 posts) Tidbury Ring (5.23km NE) (5 posts) Norsebury Ring (5.97km ENE) (5 posts) Wallers Ash Barrow (6.04km E) (2 posts) Woolbury (6.14km WSW) (11 posts) Cranbourne Wood Long Barrow (6.84km NE) (1 post) Flowerdown Barrows (7.09km SE) (15 posts) Stockbridge Down (7.22km WSW) (2 posts) Freefolk Wood Barrows (8.89km NE) (1 post) Three Barrows (Laverstoke) (9.43km NE) (1 post) West Wood (9.5km S) (7 posts) Oram's Arbour (9.74km SE) (2 posts) Waters Down Farm (9.75km WSW) (1 post) Micheldever Woods (9.89km E) (13 posts) Danebury Round Barrows (9.92km WSW) (1 post) Farley Mount Enclosure (10.01km SSW) (9 posts) Bury Hill (10.04km W) (20 posts) Balksbury (10.1km WNW) (4 posts) Withering Corner Barrows. (10.22km SSW) (6 posts) Popham Beacons (10.59km ENE) (10 posts) Danebury (10.9km WSW) (43 posts) Danebury Long Barrows (10.9km WSW) (7 posts) Danebury North-East long barrow (10.9km W) (1 post) Oliver's Battery (11.1km SSE) (7 posts) Abra Barrow (11.15km NE) (4 posts) Magdalen Hill Down Barrows (11.36km ESE) (11 posts) Dirty Mount (11.41km SSW) (4 posts) Texas Barrows (11.82km SSE) (5 posts) Merdon Castle (12.15km S) (2 posts) St Catherine's Hill (12.15km SE) (22 posts) Itchen Stoke Down Barrows (12.86km E) (2 posts) Telegraph Hill Barrow (13.66km ESE) (7 posts) Cheesefoot Head Barrows (14.16km ESE) (4 posts) St Mary's Church, Twyford (14.31km SE) (5 posts) Weyhill (14.44km WNW) (2 posts) Angle Down Barrow (14.48km N) (3 posts) Twyford Pumping Station Barrows (14.96km SE) (3 posts) Love Lane (15.1km SE) (3 posts) Oliver's Battery (15.24km E) (3 posts) Whiteshoot Hill (15.26km WSW) (2 posts) The Turret (15.33km WSW) (2 posts) Upper Woodcott Farm (15.8km NNW) (2 posts) Suddern (16.63km WSW) (1 post) Gander Down (16.76km ESE) (2 posts) Seven Barrows (17.05km N) (9 posts) Quarley Hill (17.34km W) (5 posts) Owslebury (17.4km ESE) (6 posts) Longwood House Long Barrow (17.4km ESE) (6 posts) Ashleys Copse (17.67km WSW) (2 posts) Cheriton Church Mound (17.93km ESE) (4 posts) Martin's Clump Mine (18.04km W) (1 post) Lockerley Camp (18.07km SW) (1 post) Martin's Clump (18.24km WSW) (2 posts) Ladle Hill (18.73km N) (9 posts) Bevisbury (18.81km WNW) (3 posts) Cheriton Long Barrow (18.84km E) (7 posts) Beacon Hill (18.85km N) (26 posts) Ladle Hill Disc Barrow (18.85km NNE) (4 posts) Lamborough (18.9km ESE) (2 posts) Watership Down (19.04km NNE) (1 post) Barrow Field Clumps (19.2km W) (4 posts) Hinton Ampner Park (19.64km ESE) (1 post) Dunwood Camp (19.65km SW) (2 posts) The Millbarrows (19.83km ESE) (5 posts) Laundry Bungalows (20km W) (1 post) - Facilities within 20 km - - The Museum of the Iron... (Museum: 9.8 km NW) Andover Museum (Museum: 9.8 km NW) The Milbury's Inn (Pub: 18.6 km ESE)

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Not one but four long barrows not all shown on Streetmap. All sites within less than a mile radius. W.Barrow marked by post. E.Barrow by uneven ground. Long Barrow, W. of Moody's Down Farm. SU426387. Long Barrow SE of Middlebarn Farm. SU417382. Other sites in this group; 2 Bowl Barrows SU436384. 3 " " " 1 visible SU418389. 2 " " " SU406370. 1 " " " SU418362. 1 " " " 17M by 0.6M SU420362. A remarkable collection within such a small area. The first two long barrows may be unique as they were built within a few metres of one another (Although see Milston Down nr Bulford http://www.wiltshire-web.co.uk/history/barrows.htm ) Sadly time has not been kind to these monuments, most are badly damaged or only visible as crop marks. However the loss of the first two is unbelievable, the raised bank of the army firing range (The butt?) was dumped straight on top of them! Even to have put it a few metres to the E would have avoided this wanton damage. Comments (0)  |  Add a comment  |  Permalink

Posted by jimit 15th August 2003ce Edited 15th August 2003ce

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Details of long barrows on Pastscape (`A' - SU 43473862 and `B' - SU 43363867) Tumuli (OE) (1) `A' Long barrow No 49(3). A pear-shaped mound, 160' long, 84' wide at the E end and 5' high, with flank ditches 24' wide and 1' deep.(1) This long barrow has been destroyed in making a rifle range.(4) In removing it a skeleton was found, rather to the east of the middle and on the main axis. The cranium (seen at the clerk of works office) was of long-headed Neolithic type. The barrow was composed of chalk rubble except in the region of the skeleton, where there was black clayey soil. All the material was removed carefully, but nothing unusual was noticed, At the time of my visit, 4.4.1940, two long narrow trenches had been (cut) into the underlying natural chalk to a depth of c.18". In one of them the lip of the ditch was exposed and showed that the ditch was c26' wide.(5) `B' Long barrow, No 50 (3) with a rectangular mound 220' long 75' wide and 4' high (its height almost the same throughout its length) and parallel flank ditches, 27' wide and 1' deep. A rim fragment, now in the Winchester Museum, which I obtained from its SE end, has been examined by Mr C F C Hawkes, who states that it "could reasonably be taken as Neolithic `A'.... but it might easily be late Bronze Age".(2) (2-7) `A' Mound completely removed. Course of northern ditch, visible as band of rank grass. `B' Description in T2 correct. Freshly ploughed. (8) SU 43473862. Moody's Down South-East long barrow. The ditches remain visible as hollows under grass on flat ground. SU 44363867. Moody's Down North-West long barrow. Reduced by ploughing; it now measures 70.0m long, 1.2m high and 7.5m wide. Comments (0)  |  Add a comment  |  Permalink

Posted by Chance 7th June 2014ce