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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Cherkley Court Barrows Alternative Name: Stane StreetCountry: England
NOTE: This site is 1.821 km away from the location you searched for.
County: Surrey Type: Round Barrow(s)
Nearest Town: Leatherhead Nearest Village: Ashtead
Map Ref: TQ18385467
Latitude: 51.278884N Longitude: 0.30413W
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| 5 | Perfect |
| 4 | Almost Perfect |
| 3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
| 2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
| 1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
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| -1 | Completely destroyed |
| 5 | Superb |
| 4 | Good |
| 3 | Ordinary |
| 2 | Not Good |
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| 5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
| 4 | Short walk on a footpath |
| 3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
| 2 | A long walk |
| 1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
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| 5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
| 4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
| 3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
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About 1800 B.C. a new wave of immigrants, able to work metals and in particular bronze, arrived. Bronze was scarce and a trading system had to be set up to maintain supplies of ore and to sell the products. A trackway, known as the Harroway, came into use. It extended from Kent as far as Hampshire and Wiltshire. In Surrey, it roughly followed the line of the present-day towns and villages between Croydon and Farnham. It probably entered Leatherhead from the east along Green Lane, turning south-west along the Epsom Road to cross the river about where the Leisure Centre is now and climb Hawks Hill through the waterworks land.
Aerial views show many burial mounds (barrows or tumuli) near Thirty Acres Barn. All these barrows probably date from the Bronze or Iron Age. The only true Bronze-Age finds come from the floodplain near Young Street near Leatherhead: some flint arrowheads and a disc-knife; scratches in the flint contain iron pyrites, probably from the Wealden ironstone pebble used to smooth it.
Note: Excavations find evidence for quarrying, crop processing and potential ritual activity - and the possibility that Stane Street runs along the line of a pre-existing route, possibly dating back to the Bronze Age or earlier.
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