<< 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 StreetCountry: England
NOTE: This site is 3.514 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:
| 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 |
| 0 | No data. |
| -1 | Completely destroyed |
| 5 | Superb |
| 4 | Good |
| 3 | Ordinary |
| 2 | Not Good |
| 1 | Awful |
| 0 | No data. |
| 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 |
| 0 | No data. |
| 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 |
| 2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village |
| 1 | co-ordinates of the nearest town |
| 0 | no 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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