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Site Name: Childrey

Site Location: South-East Oxfordshire
Related Achive: Manning

The only sites mentioned at Childrey in the Manning documentary archive are two round barrows on Hackpen Hill. One is a bowl barrow, 1.5m high, with a ditch. The other is a round barrow 1.8m foot high and 21m in diameter. Various objects, including flint implements, an urn and burnt bones have been found at this site.

References:

Victoria County History of Berkshire, Vol I, p279 (Childrey was in Berkshire, pre 1974)

Berkshire Archaeological Journal, 1936, p30

Aerial Photographs
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Aerial photograph of Hackpen Hill
The Ridgeway on Hackpen Hill taken by Major Allen on 20 August 1938
(Ref Album 16,52)
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