© Mapbox · © OpenStreetMap contributors · Boundary data © Historic England (NHLE)
Holt Down Plantation is an ancient monument in Hampshire comprising Romano-British and Iron Age structural remains alongside evidence of Romano-British and Iron Age agricultural land use. The site contains the fragmentary remains of buildings from both periods, together with a field system and hollow ways that attest to sustained occupation and farming activity across the Iron Age and Roman periods. The hollow ways, which represent trackways worn into the landscape by repeated use, indicate patterns of movement and access across the plantation, whilst the field system demonstrates the organisation of arable or pastoral land during these periods. The survival of these earthwork features provides archaeological evidence for settlement continuity and the agricultural economy of the region during the late prehistoric and Roman occupation phases.
Romano-British and Iron Age buildings, field system and hollow ways in the southern part of Holt Down Plantation is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1020135. View the official record →
Holt Down Plantation is an ancient monument in Hampshire comprising Romano-British and Iron Age structural remains alongside evidence of Romano-British and Iron Age agricultural land use. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1020135.
Romano-British and Iron Age buildings, field system and hollow ways in the southern part of Holt Down Plantation is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, legally protected by Historic England (NHLE) — the body responsible for designating and safeguarding heritage sites in England. The official designation reference is 1020135.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Romano-British village (1.3 km), Anglo-Saxon cemetery at Chalton Peak (2.1 km), Bowl barrow on Chalton Down, 350m south east of Manor Farm (2.4 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Romano-British and Iron Age buildings, field system and hollow ways in the southern part of Holt Down Plantation's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
Every location is different. Not every section appears for every place, only what the historical record actually holds turns up in a report.
Romano-British and Iron Age buildings, field system and hollow ways in the southern part of Holt Down Plantation stands on White Chalk Subgroup, bedrock that formed in the Maastrichtian. The rock here is chalk.