For information about the Long Barrow (much eroded) on Stanmore Common, see: Harrow Archaeology Survey Project (1985) by C.J.Watkins. It is some 400m NW of Warren Lane and near to the round barrow. Yes, some refer to it as a pillow mound ... it is very very eroded ... C.J. Watkins stated without excavation "Either it served as a neolithic long barrow or a medieval pillow mound". The mound is aligned almost North/South.
The circular mound morphology accords well with it being a burial mound.
OK ... I know the old story ... two Stones are a Cove, three proof of a circle ...
The 1985 report states that neither mound appears in/on any OS Map ...
The conclusion is that both sites require excavation to conclude their actual use.
One Neolithic? One Bronze Age?
I can't exactly call in Time Teams after the Cherry Picker incident last year :>) What ever the truth, W.W.Druett suggests Stanmore Common as a Druid Stronghold ... and someone sent me a book about the sacred Haroow-On-The-Hill ... but unfortunately they got most of their facts 'from a dream' ....
Oh well ... off to look at some Buckinghamshire Pudding Stone in the week ...
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