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<< Our Photo Pages >> Weston Wood Platform Mound - Round Barrow(s) in England in Surrey

Submitted by Eileen on Tuesday, 01 February 2005  Page Views: 7431

Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Weston Wood Platform Mound
Country: England County: Surrey Type: Round Barrow(s)
Nearest Town: Guildford  Nearest Village: Albury
Map Ref: TQ055484
Latitude: 51.225053N  Longitude: 0.490568W
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
 Destroyed Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
 1 Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
0No data.
 2 Accuracy:
5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
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Weston Wood Platform Mound
Weston Wood Platform Mound submitted by Eileen : Albury Sand Pit Platform Mound in 1998 - gone now (Vote or comment on this photo)
A Platform Mound described in the 1950s literature on the excavation of Weston Wood. The mound is in the area of the Albury Sand Pit. This photograph was taken in 1998. Andy and myself returned last summer and were unable to find the location of this barrow, meaning this little square of the English countryside is now gone forever, swallowed up by a sandpit.

Note: Destruction of a barrow by sand extraction. Those of a nervous disposition may wish to look away.
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Weston Wood Platform Mound
Weston Wood Platform Mound submitted by dodomad : Mrs Joan Harding, who led the excavations throughout the 1960s shows Dame Kathleen Kenyon (left) around the Weston Wood excavation site. A small but significant Bronze Age village site in Surrey with evidence of pot production and an earlier Mesolithic layer. Source: Joan Harding archive via Surrey Archaeological Society and AOC Archaeology (Vote or comment on this photo)

Weston Wood Platform Mound
Weston Wood Platform Mound submitted by Eileen : Platform Mound described in the 1950s literature - in the Albury Sand Pit in 1998 - gone now (Vote or comment on this photo)

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TQ0548 : Albury Sand Pit by N Chadwick
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TQ0548 : Sand Pit, Shere by Colin Smith
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TQ0548 : Bulldozer at Shere Sand Pit by Colin Smith
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TQ0548 : Sand Pit Kit by Colin Smith
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TQ0548 : Albury Sand Pit by N Chadwick
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Report on the Mesolithic Industry of Weston Wood, Albury - E L Machin by Andy B on Saturday, 15 May 2021
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Report on the Mesolithic Industry of Weston Wood, Albury - E L Machin
in Surrey Archaeological Society Research Volumes (1976) Volume 3.

https://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/archives/view/surreyrv/contents.cfm?vol_id=980

https://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/archiveDS/archiveDownload?t=arch-2249-1/dissemination/pdf/r_vol_3/surreyrv003_103-111_machin.pdf
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Analysis of the pottery from excavations at Weston Wood, 1961 – 1968 by Andy B on Saturday, 15 May 2021
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Prehistoric Pottery from Weston Wood, Surrey
Between 1961 and 1968, rescue excavations were carried out at Weston Wood, Surrey, ahead of sand extraction. Prominent Surrey archaeologist, Joan Harding (1911-2004), directed the excavations, famously incorporating experimental archaeology into her enquiries and shedding new light onto grain storage in the Bronze Age. Findings at the site included Mesolithic and Neolithic occupation layers and the remains of a Late Bronze Age settlement, including at least two post-built structures, along with other features such as pits. A rich assemblage of finds was recovered, including a significant assemblage of prehistoric pottery, representing one of the largest from the county.

Following Joan Harding’s death in 2004, the site archive was given by her family to the Surrey Archaeological Society, who undertook a project to carry out research on the archive with financial assistance from the Aggregates Levy Sustainability Fund (ALSF). Michael Russell (Historic England) assessed the pottery with the aim of making recommendations for future research and publication, finding that the assemblage had potential to enhance understandings of the site. Having secured additional funding from SITA UK, the Surrey Archaeological Society were able to commission the full analysis and publication of the pottery assemblage by Michael Russell, with AOC Archaeology Group managing the project.

The resulting report is published on AOC’s website and analyses the full assemblage of prehistoric pottery, contextualising it within the wider regional assemblage to draw new conclusions about prehistoric life at the site.

https://www.aocarchaeology.com/key-projects/report-weston-wood-surrey

https://www.aocarchaeology.com/s/32093-Albury.pdf
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Re: Weston Wood Platform Mound by Andy B on Saturday, 01 May 2021
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Mike Peer writes: I am unhappy with Eileen's photo of the Weston Wood mound on your website [above] as from memory I believe this to be a topsoil stock, with the 'tumulus' being further north, but unfortunately it was gone before I became involved. Interesting that Joan Harding gets a mention - I asked her many years ago what she thought of this tumulus and she professed not to have known of its existence despite the fact that she had carried out extensive excavations nor far south of it! Needless to say I was left speechless.
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Prehistoric Albury by Andy B on Wednesday, 06 January 2021
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Trevor Brook from Albury History Society writes:

A load of paperwork from the late Caroline Martin has come our way and I've been busy adding scans to the website. This one has references to old settlements:
http://alburyhistory.org.uk/attachments/File/Albury%20notes%20Caroline%20Martin.pdf
search the text for stones or bronze.

This new one:
http://alburyhistory.org.uk/attachments/File/Walks%20Round%20Albury%20by%20O.M.%20Heath.pdf
describes a cromlech and droves of 500 Welsh cattle on page 4 of the scanned booklet.
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Report on the Excavation of a Late Bronze Age Homestead in Weston Wood, Albury by Andy B on Monday, 09 February 2015
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Interim Report on the Excavation of a Late Bronze Age Homestead in Weston Wood, Albury, Surrey by JOAN M HARDING

http://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/archives/view/surreyac/contents.cfm?vol=61&CFID=5394068&CFTOKEN=45113725

http://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/catalogue/adsdata/arch-379-1/dissemination/pdf/vol_61/surreyac061_010-017_harding.pdf
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    Weston Wood Excavations by Andy B on Saturday, 15 May 2021
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    from Surrey Archaeology Volume 61, 1964

    Weston Wood, Albury. Late Bronze Age Homestead (N.G.R. 053484).
    Excavations, under Miss Joan M. Harding, continued at weekends throughout
    the winter months and for two weeks at Easter, to keep ahead of the bulldozer. A rectangular working floor was found, levelled in the sloping hillside. It contained four fires, a one foot wide hole stuffed with pieces of two large
    storage pots, and at the furthest end from the house, a pit. This pit was four
    feet across, and eighteen inches deep, with a fiat base. Lying on its side on the bottom was a storage pot. Grain was scattered about, and there were small
    pieces of twisted fibre like rope. The grain has been studied by Professor Bunting and Dr. Helback. Two-thirds of it is barley, mainly six-rowed barley,
    and one-third wheat, mainly emmer. The grain has also been radio-carbon dated by Professor Godwin. Two separate tests gave the same result, exactly, 510 B.C., plus or minus 110, confirming the site to date from the end of the Late Bronze Age. [???? - MegP Ed]

    A plastic skin was taken of the pit profile by Mr. A. J. Clark, using "Polybond" polyvinyl acetate emulsion. The technique used removes a
    skin of sand, clay and hard podsol, for study and preservation elsewhere. Experiments were carried out using local clay and pot pounded boilers to make
    Late Bronze Age type pottery. Firing was not altogether successful because of the wet weather.

    Investigations were started at the end of the year on an occupation floor to the south and on the same contour. Much pottery is being found. Miss Harding read a paper on the site to the Prehistoric Society on 9th November, at the Institute of Archaeology, and on the same occasion an
    exhibition of finds, and the plastic skins, was set out, with the assistance of Mr. Holling.
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Talk by Joan Harding about the Bronze Age Settlements in Weston Woods by Andy B on Sunday, 08 February 2015
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Link to an MP3 of a talk about the Bronze Age Settlements in Weston Woods by Mrs Joan Harding of Shere VH from January 1984, (58 minutes)

Trevor Brook writes: Joan Harding never did the full write up which is referred to. This is the audio recording of her Albury History Society lecture and I have tried hard to track down the slides she must have brought with her. The Domestic Buildings research group, which I think she founded, don't have any of her stuff and nor it seems do Surrey County Archives.

More at http://www.alburyhistory.org.uk
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