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Description: | Etching by Heywood Sumner in the Artist's edition (1883) of John R Wise, 'The New Forest: its history and scenery', p. 216. It is used to illustrate a chapter on Romano-British potteries. The Sloden potteries were well-known to archaeologists.
A description of Sloden Hill is given by Heywood Sumner in 'The New Forest', 1924, p. 87. "On the South-East margin of Old Sloden Wood an eminent hillock stands on the moorland that slopes down to Dockens Water. The soil is Bracklesham Beds. It rises on the East and West sides about forty-six feet in one hundred and one paces up, on the North side thirty-six feet in forty-eight paces up, on the South side its slope is long and gradual. The top is much riddled by hole diggings and hummocks of upturn, caused by rabbit extermination; measurement is thereby prevented. The said upturn shows white sand mingled with sandstone as the subsoilÂ…." | Format: | image/jpeg | License: | http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.exe?a=query&p=gateway&f=generic_sitetext%2ehtm&_IXFIRST_=1&_IXMAXHITS_=1&cms_con_core_subtype%3acms_con_text_what=copyright&%3acms_sys_group=%22sopse%22 | Subjects: | New Forest Sloden pottery Sloden Hill | Temporal: | start=1882-01-01; | Source: | Sense of place SE | Creator: | Heywood Sumner | Identifier: | http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | image/jpeg | Go to resource |
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