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<< Text Pages >> Thirty Acre Barn Barrows - Round Barrow(s) in England in Surrey

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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Thirty Acre Barn Barrows Alternative Name: Stane Street
Country: England
NOTE: This site is 3.367 km away from the location you searched for.

County: Surrey Type: Round Barrow(s)
Nearest Town: Leatherhead  Nearest Village: Ashtead
Map Ref: TQ192558
Latitude: 51.288869N  Longitude: 0.292002W
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.
no data 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.
3 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
0no data
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Round Barrow(s) in Surrey. Aerial views show many burial mounds in fields south of Thirty Acres Barn.

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.

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.

Thirty Acre Barn is a horse racing stud near Epsom racecourse.
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TQ1955 : Fields beside Headley Road by Andrew Longton
by Andrew Longton
©2005(licence)
TQ1955 : Farmland near the M25 by Stefan Czapski
by Stefan Czapski
©2014(licence)
TQ1955 : Stane Street, Tyrrell's Wood by David Howard
by David Howard
©2016(licence)
TQ1956 : Headley Road at the entrance to Stane Street by David Howard
by David Howard
©2016(licence)
TQ1956 : Stane Street by Ian Capper
by Ian Capper
©2015(licence)

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