Telegraph Hill Barrow

Nearest town:
Winchester (4km W)
OS reference:
SU522282
OS sheet:
185
Latitude:
51° 3' 0.7 N
Longitude:
1° 15' 18.75 W
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Image of Telegraph Hill Barrow (Round Barrow) by A R Cane

Looking South East. The South Downs Way track runs right past it and there are a couple of bumps slightly further East on the other side of the track before you approach Cheesefoot Head.

Image credit: A R Cane
A R Cane
A R Cane Oct 25, 2010
Image of Telegraph Hill Barrow (Round Barrow) by UncleRob

The barrow occpies a fine position to be seen from around the Chilcomb valey and other hills. This is from Magdalen Hill Down, without zoom, by the (modern) cemetery, a distance of about one and a quarter miles. See the cow on the right? Look at the skyline straight above its backside. There’s a copse on top of the hill and a lower dark mound immediately to the left – that’s your barrow, that is.

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UncleRob
UncleRob Nov 12, 2008
Image of Telegraph Hill Barrow (Round Barrow) by UncleRob

Very diminutive bump on the south side of the track, among the trees in a tangled bit of set-aside.

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UncleRob
UncleRob Sep 9, 2008
Image of Telegraph Hill Barrow (Round Barrow) by UncleRob

Large mound on the north side of the track. In the distance you can see the gleaming planetarium at the Intech science museum. A nice contrast of Bronze Age mound and Space Age mound. The shadow is cast by the tall cypress trees alongside the track.

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UncleRob
UncleRob Sep 9, 2008

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Telegraph Hill Barrow

UncleRob
UncleRob Sep 9, 2008

This is a nice spot on top of the hills, with long views north into the upper Itchen valley and west across the sloping downs (well, you would have seen west at the time of construction, but there are now some tall trees). OS maps place ye Tumulus on the south side of the track, where there is just a very tiny bump that might be nothing to do with it. A much likelier candidate is the large mound with a bit of a ditch and a dimple on top on the north side of the track. But you never know...

25m diameter, 2m high. Sherds of Bronze Age pottery and worked flints emerged from the ditch, according to MAGIC. There’s not much more that’s known about it. It’s in relatively good nick and is not being ploughed!

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