page_title: Old Winchester Hill
section_title: Archaeology
hierarchical_section_title: Old Winchester Hill / Archaeology
caption_attribution_description: English: Some of the Late Prehistoric burial mounds located outside of the western entrance to the hillfort.
context_page_description: Old Winchester Hill is a 66.2-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Hampshire. It is a Nature Conservation Review site, Grade I, and a National Nature Reserve. Part of it is a Scheduled Monument.
context_section_description: On the summit of the hill is an Iron Age hill fort. Within the hill fort can also be found Bronze Age barrows. The barrows date from between 4500 and 3,500 BCE whilst the fort itself is believed to be Iron Age in origin. It was probably built in the Early or early-Middle Iron Age (600-300 BCE) and fell out of use around the beginning of the Late Iron Age (150-100 BCE), as this is the general pattern for hillforts in the southeast of England. More modern archaeology dates from World War II when the British Army used the hill as a mortar testing range. Some unexploded Ordnance may still remain in 'fenced-off' sections of the hill however grazing hill-sheep access all areas so danger to the casual walker is likely to be low.
caption: Three of the barrows situated outside of the western entrance to the hillfort.
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