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Down House
Adjacent to the A343 Salisbury Road.
Image: © Dr Duncan Pepper
Taken: 15 Mar 2009
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Down House by A343
Down House by Down Farm on the A343 heading to Middle Wallop.
Image: © Shaun Ferguson
Taken: 13 Jun 2007
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Abbotts Ann Down from A343
Image: © John Firth
Taken: 2 Apr 2014
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Down House from A30 southbound
Image: © Dave Thompson
Taken: 18 Jan 2020
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Milestone, Abbotts Ann Down
The milestone stands beside the A343 near Down Farm.
Image: © Maigheach-gheal
Taken: 19 Feb 2010
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Milestone, Abbotts Ann Down
For a wider view of the milestone see
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Image: © Maigheach-gheal
Taken: 19 Feb 2010
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Old Milestone by the A343, Abbotts Ann Down
Carved stone post with iron plates by the A343, in parish of ABBOTTS ANN (TEST VALLEY District), Down Farm, by the road, on West side of road. Lopcombe pillar, erected by the Andover & Basingstoke turnpike trust in the 19th century.
Inscription reads:-
: LONDON / 68 / ANDOVER / 4 : : LONDON / 68 / SARUM / 13 :
Milestone Society National ID: HA_ANSA04.
Image: © K Lawrence
Taken: 25 Feb 2003
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Plough, Abbotts Ann Down
The earliest form of cultivation consisted simply of scratching the soil with a branch or antler to enable a seed to be buried. Early ploughs did no more than this. Later models were designed to bury the remains of the previous crop and surface debris.
The Romans designed a plough with stout iron teeth mounted on a wooden sole which turned the soil. Celts and Romans, using light ploughs, adopted the practice of cross-ploughing, so that their fields tended to be almost square. The Saxons, using a heavy, eight-oxen plough, made their fields long to reduce the number of turns. The old English furlong, one-eighth of a mile, is derived from ‘furrow long’.
The earliest mould-board plough, similar to that used today, dates from Saxon times. But the really modern mould-board dates from the 18th century with the introduction of iron. Double-furrow ploughs, pulled by two horses, were common until tractors were introduced. Today, powerful tractors pull banks of ploughs which cut many furrows at the same time.
The image is taken from the drive of Down Farm.
Image: © Maigheach-gheal
Taken: 19 Feb 2010
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Milestone on the A343 Salisbury Road
London 68 miles, Andover 4 miles.
Image: © Dr Duncan Pepper
Taken: 15 Mar 2009
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The A343 Salisbury Road
Looking towards Nether Wallop, adjacent to Down House.
Image: © Dr Duncan Pepper
Taken: 15 Mar 2009
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