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Preston Candover Long Barrow
51.1590° N, -1.1366° E
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Preston Candover Long Barrow is an unchambered long barrow located near to the village of Preston Candover in the south-eastern English county of Hampshire. The archaeologist Ian Kinnes classed the Preston Candover example alongside the Badshot Lea Long Barrow in Surrey as the two known examples located on the North Downs.
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Spearhead style reinterpreted as early medieval
5th–7th centuries
Spearhead and seax dated to later early medieval
7th–8th centuries
Late 19th-century finds and assessments
late 19th century
Scramasax in museum collection
by late 1930s
Hawkes calls for excavation
1940
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