[1] A spearhead and a seax probably dating from the seventh or eighth century, during England's early medieval period, have been recovered from the Preston Candover Barrow.
[3] A scramasax was also reported as having been found from the edge of the barrow, and was in the collection of Basingstoke Museum by the late 1930s.
[4] Writing in 1940, Hawkes expressed hope that archaeological excavation might reveal more about early medieval activity at the barrow.
[3] O. G. S. Crawford disagreed with this assessment and on the Ordnance Survey map it was instead classified as a round barrow.
[5] Two other individuals, G. W. Willis of Basingstoke Museum and J. R. Ellaway, subsequently informed Hawkes that the original identification was correct, and that the tumulus had only taken on the appearance of a round barrow after being deformed by agricultural levelling in recent decades.