Old Winchester Hill

Old Winchester Hill is a 66.2-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Hampshire [1]. Despite its name, the hill is around 11 miles from Winchester; it is, however, part of the Winchester–East Meon Anticline [1]. It lies east of Corhampton on the eastern side of the Meon Valley, opposite Beacon Hill [1]. On the summit of the hill is an Iron Age hill fort [1]. Within the hill fort can also be found Bronze Age barrows dating between 2100 and 750 BCE [1]. The fort itself 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 hill forts in the south-east of England [1].