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- Archaeological investigation
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{{short description|Unchambered long barrow in England}}Badshot Lea Long Barrow is an unchambered long barrow located near to the village of Badshot Lea in the south-eastern English county of Surrey. Probably constructed in the fourth millennium BCE, during Britain's Early Neolithic period, today it survives only in a ruined state. Built out of earth, the long barrow consists of a tumulus flanked by side ditches. Archaeologists have established that the monument was built by pastoralist communities shortly after the introduction of agriculture to Britain from continental Europe. Although representing part of an architectural tradition of long barrow building that was widespread across Neolithic Europe, the Badshot Lea Long Barrow is the only known example in Surrey. The nearest examples are the Medway Megaliths, clustered around the River Medway in Kent, and the long barrows of Sussex. During the 1930s, the site was excavated by Alexander Keiller and Stuart Piggott. ContextThe archaeologist Ian Kinnes classed the Badshot Lea example alongside the Preston Candover Long Barrow as the two known examples located on the North Downs.{{sfn|Kinnes|1992|p=13}} Archaeological investigationSurrey Archaeological Society loaned a ceramic vessel recovered at the site to Guildford Borough Council, who put it on display in Guildford Museum.[1] ReferencesFootnotes1. ^{{cite web |title=Neolithic Pot |website=Guildford Borough |url=https://guildford.gov.uk/article/21216/Neolithic-pot }}
Bibliography{{Refbegin|30em|indent=yes}}- {{cite book |last=Ashbee |first=Paul |year=1970 |title=The Earthen Long Barrow in Britain |location=London |publisher=J. M. Bent and Sons |isbn=978-0460077552 |ref=harv}}
- {{cite book |title=The Ancient Burial-Mounds of England |last=Grinsell |first=Leslie V. |edition=second |year=1953 |location=London |publisher=Methuen & Co. |ref=harv}}
- {{cite book |title=The Pagan Religions of the Ancient British Isles: Their Nature and Legacy |last=Hutton |first=Ronald |year=1991 |publisher=Blackwell |location=Oxford and Cambridge |isbn=978-0-631-17288-8 |ref=harv}}
- {{cite book |title=Pagan Britain |last=Hutton |first=Ronald |year=2013 |publisher=Yale University Press |location=New Haven and London |isbn=978-0-300-197716 |ref=harv}}
- {{cite book |last=Kinnes |first=Ian |title=Non-Megalithic Long Barrows and Allied Structures in the British Neolithic |year=1992 |publisher=British Museum |location=London |series=British Museum Occasional Papers No. 52 |ref=harv}}
- {{cite book |title=Neolithic Britain and Ireland |last=Malone |first=Caroline |year=2001 |publisher=Tempus |location=Stroud |isbn=0-7524-1442-9 |ref=harv}}
{{Refend}}Further reading- {{cite book |title=South-East England |last=Jessup |first=Ronald F. |year=1970 |publisher=Thames and Hudson |location=London |page=15}}
- {{cite contribution |title=The Archaeology of Surrey to 1540 |first1=D. |last1=Field |first2=J. |last2=Cotton |chapter=Neolithic Surrey: A Survey of the Evidence |pages=71-96 |editor=Joanna Bird |editor2=D. G. Bird |location=Guildford |publisher=Surrey Archaeological Society |year=1987}}
- {{cite contribution |last1=Keiller |first1=Alexander |first2=Stuart |last2=Piggott |year=1939 |contribution=Badshot Long Barrow (Report on the Excavations) |editor=Oakley, KP |editor2=WF Rankine |editor3=AWG Lowther |title=A Survey of the Prehistory of the Farnham District (Surrey) |pages=133-152 |publisher=Surrey Archaeological Society |location=Guildford }}
External links- [https://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=23698 Badshot Lea Long Barrow] at The Megalithic Portal
- [https://www.exploringsurreyspast.org.uk/themes/places/surrey/waverley/farnham/earlier_history_and_archaeology/farnham_badshot_lea_long_barrow/ Badshot Lea Long Barrow] at Exploring Surrey's Past
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