Welcome to the Sutton Scotney Circular. A series of 11 caches over 3.5 miles of bridleways and paths taking in some stunning Hampshire countryside, starting next finishing in the picturesque village of Sutton Scotney.
The loop also takes in some previously hidden coaches, mystery caches and multi-caches that others have placed at Wonston's Holy Trinity Church.
This is our first cache trail along one of our favourite walks. They can be completed in any order but working from 1 - 11 would be easiest (there is also free parking a cache 1). All the caches should be quite simple to find with just the basic TOTT (tweezers a must). Just be careful not to wake the fairies!
Enjoy!
On the way to this Cache, you will have passed Kitson Clumps (or are about to if completeing the loop in reverse order)
The monument includes a bell barrow and a bowl barrow, both of probable Bronze Age date (2400-700 BC), prominently situated at the end of a chalk ridge overlooking the River Dever 500m to the south. They are located on a slight promontory within a copse of trees known formerly as Cranbourne Clump but now renamed as Kitson Clumps in memory of Richard Kitson, died 1992, for whom a memorial plaque has been erected on the monument. The monument commands extensive views in all directions. The two barrows are aligned roughly east-west along the ridge. The bowl barrow lies to the west and includes a roughly circular mound, 21m in diameter and 1.2m high. The mound is deeply hollowed in the centre, indicating that it has been disturbed by later excavation. The bell barrow lies 16m to the ENE and includes a flat-topped, circular mound, 24m in diameter, surrounded by a 6m wide berm. It stands up to 1.4m high and is flanked to the north east by a shallow, partly infilled ditch, 5m wide, further traces of which can be seen surrounding the barrow. A similar ditch, from which material would have been obtained for the construction of the mound, is likely to have surrounded the bowl barrow but has been infilled by later ploughing. Two bronze daggers found on the surface of the bell barrow's mound are now in the Winchester Museum. Further buried remains associated with the construction and use of both barrows, including burials, grave pits, burial goods, and the original ground surface, can be expected to survive beneath the mounds and in the area lying between them. The wooden fences and the memorial plaque situated on the monument are excluded from the scheduling, although the ground beneath them is included.