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Clanfield Earthwork

Has been described as a Questionable Timber Castle (Ringwork)

There are no visible remains

Name	Clanfield Earthwork
Alternative Names
Historic Country	Hampshire and the Isle of Wight
Modern Authority	Hampshire
1974 Authority	Hampshire
Civil Parish	Clanfield

? Bowl barrow, tree ring. Scheduled (Grinsell).

A circular area defined by a broad shallow ditch not more than 18 inches deep. No break for an entrance, interior same level as exterior. No bank and no central mound. Not a tumulus and very doubtful if it is ancient (Annotated Record Map).

Circular ringwork of platform type (Annotated Record Map).

No traces of this feature remain.

It shows clearly on a Crawford Collection AP of July 1932 with its western perimeter clipped by the road. Some 50.0m to the S at approx SU 71551700 this AP shows an apparent saucer barrow but this also has been destroyed (F1 ASP 04-OCT-68). (PastScape)

Gatehouse Comments

Record in PastScape of 'ringwork' although probably a ringbank is meant rather than a medieval castle. The site of an uncertain circular ringwork of platform type beside the London Portsmouth Road, associated with a probably Bronze Age saucer barrow. This site would guard the main road at the point where it enters the Downs and is confined, so not implausable as medieval castle site, but since remains gone and were seemingly slight before being lost and with no associated medieval sites or finds has to be doubtful.

- Philip Davis

Not scheduled

Not Listed

Historic England (PastScape) Defra or Monument number(s)

242598

County Historic Environment Record

historicenvironment.hants.gov.uk/AHBSearch.aspx

OS Map Grid Reference	SU715170
Latitude	50.9480094909668
Longitude	-0.982840001583099
Eastings	471560
Northings	117000