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SURREY ARCHAEOLOGICAL COLLECTIONS
Saxon Barrows excavated by General Pitt Rivers on Merrow Down, Guildford
P R SAUNDERS
In 1975 a collection of General Pitt Riversâ papers was deposited in Salisbury Museum. Amongst these papers are eight leaves of manuscript entitled âOn Tumuli near Guildfordâ and a roll of drawings marked `Merrow Downs. Whitmore Common'. Close examination of these papers reveals that the manuscript comprises a rough draft in Pitt Riversâ (then Col. Lane Foxâs) own hand which was published in greatly abstracted form. The tumuli described were two Bronze Age and six Saxon barrows. The Bronze Age barrows and their urns were not adequately published until 1924. Few details of the Saxon barrows were noted and even their geographical location has remained in doubt. The purpose here is to record the information which has now come to light about the latter barrows.
