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Preston Candover Long Barrow

Unchambered long barrow in Hampshire, England

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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.

Paleolithic
Mesolithic
Neolithic
Chalcolithic
Bronze Age
Iron Age
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Early Modern Period
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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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Burial and Funerary Structures

Burial Mounds
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Environmental and Natural Features

Artificial Mounds
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United Kingdom

Coordinates

51.16° N, -1.14° E