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St Catherine's Hill hillfort
St Catherine's Hill hillfort, Winchester |
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ancient monument, hillfort
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Winchester
Hampshire
SU484276
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univallate, over 15 acres
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HANTSLOC.t
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25inch County Series map -- Hants L.1 |
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St Catherine's Hill
otherwise: monte sancte Katerine, 1208
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Coates 1989
ST CATHERINE'S HILL, hill and fort SE of Winchester
There was a medieval chapel on the hill dedicated to St Catherine. However
names of this type are always suspicious; does the dedication cloak, and
canonize, an earlier place name? 'St Ann's Hill' above Allington (Wiltshire) was
earlier 'Tan Hill'. Cf also CATHERINGTON.
This name recurs in Hurn, but the earlier records testify to a ford (1316
'Catelineford').
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description
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St Katherine's Hill camp
The place is described in text Cox 1738
- hillfort - Winchester parish: - Hampshire
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Cox 1738
On St. Katherine's Hill, near it, is a Camp with single Work, and single
Graffe, neither exactly round nor square but, according to the Ground of the
Hill.
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old map
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Shown on an old map by Norden 1607
- ancient monument, hillfort - Fawley Hundred - Hamshire
Period - 1590s-1600s
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Norden 1607
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(NRD1SU42.jpg)
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