Preston Candover Long Barrow

Preston Candover Long Barrow is an unchambered long barrow located near to the village of Preston Candover in the south-eastern English county of Hampshire [1]. The archaeologist Ian Kinnes classed the Preston Candover example alongside the Badshot Lea Long Barrow in Surrey as the two known examples located on the North Downs [1]. In the late nineteenth century, an iron spearhead was recovered from inside the barrow [1]. A scramasax was also reported as having been found from the edge of the barrow [1]. In the late nineteenth century, the Reverend Sumner Wilson and T. W. Shore expressed the opinion that the Preston Candover barrow was stylistically a long barrow [1]. O. G. S. Crawford disagreed with this assessment and on the Ordnance Survey map it was instead classified as a round barrow [1].