The largest of three in the vicinity, looking south.
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Very low or worn bowl barrow or perhaps a disc barrow?
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Plundered barrow or possibly conjoined barrows overlooking Eastbourne.
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Large bowl barrow looking north. Not sure what the significance is of the concrete lump in the middle of it.
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Large plundered barrow next to the SDW track looking south.
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Two lowly barrows on the edge of the course (probably converted to sand traps). Didn’t investigate as I’m fed up of being shouted at on golf courses.
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Not sure if these are ancient or part of the course for idiot golfers, but the barrows are just visible on the horizon to the right.
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Cross dyke/ditch running NE/SW and bisected by the South Downs Way track.
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One of the cross dykes adjacent to the barrow disappearing into the tree covered escarpment.
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Account of a 1998 archaeological survey.
The foot tunnel bearing The Ridgeway beneath the M40 just next to that spectacular cut through the Chilterns towards Oxford.
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Two big sarcens on the side of the disused railway line.
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The Gods’ searchlight moves across the landscape near Chinnor.
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The main line as it emerges from the Saunderton Tunnel.
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Just after Lodge Hill. Flat and muddy just doesn’t seem right.
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Large stone in the courtyard of the Red Lion in Wendover.
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Ancient stone or natural drinking trough for animals?
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The high footbridge which carries The Ridgeway over the A41.
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Climbing the beginning of Pitstone Hill and the re-emergence of The Grim’s Ditch.
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Barrow cemetery? No, grassed over quarrying heaps.
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The Grim’s Ditch as it traverses the side of Pitstone Hill.
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Incombe Hole and the hills from whence we came.
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The higher cross dyke/defensive earthwork on Steps Hill.
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Another of the numerous cross dyke/defensive earthworks descending Steps Hill.
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The barrowed knoll to the south of the Beacon featuring one man and his dog.
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Not big by any means and a little lost in the vegetation, but in a nice spot in the quiet and solitude of Rewell Wood.
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I’m always amazed when I find something of considerable size near my own neck of the woods that hasn’t been visited before. Given that it’s horribly overgrown and at least half of it is inaccessible (unless you’re a paying visitor to Arundel Castle) maybe it’s not so surprising. The part you can access on the western side of the A284 can be reached by parking at the cafe carpark where all the local bikers meet at the weekend just off the roundabout and then walking south west along the A29 till you come to a footpath which brings you up into Rewell Wood. There are actually two quite substantial parallel dykes here with a ditch between them and they run for about 1/4 of a mile on this side and about 1/2 mile on the Arundel Estate side. Whether this was simply a boundary marker or some sort of defensive earthwork is hard to ascertain, but I think the latter due to it’s size and the fact that the high ground of Rewell Wood is littered with former settlements. A recent dig by Worthing Archaeological Society at Goblestubbs Copse 1 1/2 miles south west discovered remains of late Iron Age settlements in the relatively untouched woodlands. Anyway, worth visiting if you like thrashing about in the undergrowth like a mad person.