Badshot Lea Long Barrow

Badshot Lea Long Barrow, also known as Farnham Long Barrow, was an unchambered long barrow located near the village of Badshot Lea in the south-eastern English county of Surrey [1]. 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 [1]. Built out of earth, the long barrow consisted of a tumulus flanked by side ditches [1]. A timber post was embedded into the eastern end of the mound [1]. By the mid-1930s, chalk quarrying adjacent to the long barrow had destroyed much of its southern side [1]. In 1936, local resident W. F. Rankine discovered ox bones and stone arrow-heads in the vicinity of the site [1]. An excavation was launched under the directorship of Alexander Keiller and Stuart Piggott [1]. The northern and southern sides of the tumulus were flanked with flat-bottomed, parallel ditches [1].