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===Early history=== [[File:BARBED AND TANGED ARROWHEAD (FindID 969304).jpg|thumb|right|A [[British Bronze Age|Bronze Age]] barbed and [[tang (tools)|tanged]] flint [[arrowhead]], found in Reigate<ref>{{cite web |last= Maslin |first= Simon |title= Barbed and tanged arrowhead |date= 3 April 2020 |orig-date= 4 September 2019 |url= https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/969304 |publisher= The Portable Antiquities Scheme |access-date= 17 Aug 2022 }}</ref>]] The earliest evidence of human activity in the Reigate area is a triangular stone axe from the [[Paleolithic]], which was found in Woodhatch in 1936.<ref>{{cite journal |last= Hooper |first= Wilfrid |year= 1937 |title= A palaeolith from Surrey |journal= The Antiquaries Journal |volume= 17 |issue= 3 |page= 318 |doi= 10.1017/S0003581500094403 |s2cid= 164049561 }}</ref> Worked flints from the later [[Neolithic]] have been found on Colley Hill.<ref>{{harvnb|Hooper|1979|p=13}}</ref> Finds from the [[Bronze Age Britain|Bronze Age]] include a gold [[Ring (jewellery)#Styles|penannular ring]], dated to {{circa|1150|750}} [[Common Era|BCE]],<ref>{{cite journal |last= Williams |first= David |date= February 2012 |title= A Bronze Age gold penannular ring from Reigate |url= https://www.surreyarchaeology.org.uk/sites/default/files/SAS431_0.pdf |journal= Surrey Archaeological Society Bulletin |volume= 431 |page= 17 |access-date= 19 September 2021 |archive-date= 22 September 2021 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20210922211021/https://www.surreyarchaeology.org.uk/sites/default/files/SAS431_0.pdf |url-status= live }}</ref> and a barbed spearhead from Priory Park.<ref>{{cite journal |last= Williams |first= David |date= March 1994 |title= A late Bronze Age spearhead from Priory Park, Reigate |url= https://www.surreyarchaeology.org.uk/sites/default/files/SAS282.pdf |journal= Surrey Archaeological Society Bulletin |volume= 282 |page= 19 |access-date= 19 September 2021 |archive-date= 22 September 2021 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20210922211021/https://www.surreyarchaeology.org.uk/sites/default/files/SAS282.pdf |url-status= live }}</ref> The eight [[tumulus|barrows]] on Reigate Heath are thought to date from the same period, when the surrounding area may have been marshland.<ref>{{cite journal |last1= Hooker |first1= Rose |last2= English |first2= Judie |date= October 2010 |title= Reigate Heath Archaeological Survey |url= https://www.surreyarchaeology.org.uk/sites/default/files/SAS423_0.pdf |journal= Surrey Archaeological Society Bulletin |volume= 425 |pages= 17β19 |access-date= 19 September 2021 |archive-date= 22 September 2021 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20210922211022/https://www.surreyarchaeology.org.uk/sites/default/files/SAS423_0.pdf |url-status= live }}</ref><ref name=Heath_Barrows>{{unbulleted list citebundle|[[Historic England]] bowl barrows on Reigate Heath: {{NHLE|short=yes|num=1008849|access-date=16 October 2012}} {{NHLE|short=yes|num=1008851|access-date=16 October 2012}} {{NHLE|short=yes|num=1008852|access-date=16 October 2012}} {{NHLE|short=yes|num=1008857|access-date=16 October 2012}} {{NHLE|short=yes|num=1008869|access-date=16 October 2012}} {{NHLE|short=yes|num=1008871|access-date=16 October 2012}} {{NHLE|short=yes|num=1008872|access-date=16 October 2012}}}}</ref> [[File:Reigate-Roman-tile-kiln 2004 thumb2.jpg|right|thumb|Roman tile kiln excavated in Doods Road<ref name=SCC_Roman>{{cite web |url= https://www.surreycc.gov.uk/culture-and-leisure/archaeology/archaeological-unit/recent-archaeology-projects/roman-tile-kiln-excavated-at-doods-road-reigate |title= Roman tile kiln excavated at Doods Road Reigate |author= <!--Not stated--> |date= 18 December 2014 |publisher= Surrey County Council |access-date= 20 September 2021 |archive-date= 21 September 2021 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20210921203746/https://www.surreycc.gov.uk/culture-and-leisure/archaeology/archaeological-unit/recent-archaeology-projects/roman-tile-kiln-excavated-at-doods-road-reigate |url-status= live }}</ref>]] During the Roman period, the Doods Road area was a centre for tile-making.<ref>{{cite journal |last= Masefield |first= Robert |date= March 1994 |title= New evidence for a Roman tilery at Reigate in Surrey |url= https://www.surreyarchaeology.org.uk/sites/default/files/SAS282.pdf |journal= Surrey Archaeological Society Bulletin |volume= 282 |pages= 17β18 |access-date= 19 September 2021 |archive-date= 22 September 2021 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20210922211021/https://www.surreyarchaeology.org.uk/sites/default/files/SAS282.pdf |url-status= live }}</ref> An excavation in 2014 uncovered the remains of a 2nd- or 3rd-century kiln with several types of tile, identified as [[imbrex and tegula|'' tegulae'', ''imbrices'']] and ''pedales''.<ref name=SCC_Roman/>{{refn|Roman tiles originating from Reigate have been found in London. It is probable that ceramics were transported to markets in ''[[Londinium]]'' via [[Stane Street (Chichester)|Stane Street]] or the [[London to Brighton Way]] to the west and east of the town. The nearest points on the two [[Roman roads in Britannia|Roman roads]] to the Doods Road tilery are around {{convert|9|km|mi|abbr=on|order=flip}} distant.<ref name=Robertson_2003>{{cite web|url= https://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/catalogue/adsdata/arch-726-1/dissemination/pdf/reigate/reigate_eus_report.pdf |title= Extensive Urban Survey of Surrey: Reigate |last= Robertson |first= Jane |date= June 2003 |orig-date= March 2001 |publisher= Surrey County Archaeological Unit |access-date= 22 September 2021 |archive-date= 22 September 2021 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20210922211109/https://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/archiveDS/archiveDownload?t=arch-726-1%2Fdissemination%2Fpdf%2Freigate%2Freigate_eus_report.pdf |url-status= live}}</ref>|group=note}} Artefacts discovered to the south west of the town centre in 2011 suggest that there was a high-status [[Roman villa|villa]] nearby. Coins from the reigns of [[Vespasian]] (69β79), [[Hadrian]] (117β138), [[Severus Alexander]] (222β235) and [[Arcadius]] (383β408), indicate that there was Roman activity in the local area throughout the [[Roman Britain|occupation of Britain]].<ref>{{cite journal |last= Williams |first= David |date= February 2011 |title= A Roman site at Slipshatch Road, Reigate |url= https://www.surreyarchaeology.org.uk/sites/default/files/SAS425_0.pdf |journal= Surrey Archaeological Society Bulletin |volume= 425 |pages= 8β9 |access-date= 19 September 2021 |archive-date= 22 September 2021 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20210922211114/https://www.surreyarchaeology.org.uk/sites/default/files/SAS425_0.pdf |url-status= live }}</ref> The former name ''Cherchefelle'' suggests that the most recent period of permanent settlement in Reigate began in [[Anglo-Saxons|Anglo-Saxon]] times.<ref name=Robertson_2003/> The main settlement is thought to have been located in the area of the parish church, to the east of the modern centre, although much of the population was probably thinly dispersed around the parish.<ref name=Hooper_1979_p22>{{harvnb|Hooper|1979|pp=22}}</ref> Excavations in Church Street in the late 1970s uncovered a Saxon glass jar and remains of a skeleton of uncertain age,<ref>{{cite journal |last= Poulton |first= Robert |year= 1986 |title= Excavations on the site of the Old Vicarage, Church Street, Reigate, 1977-82, Part I Saxo-Norman and earlier discoveries |url= https://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/catalogue/adsdata/arch-379-1/dissemination/pdf/vol_77_sup/surreyac077_m001-m094_poulton-a.pdf |journal= Surrey Archaeological Collections |volume= 77 |pages= 17β94 |doi= 10.5284/1069111 |access-date= 22 September 2021 |archive-date= 22 September 2021 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20210922211120/https://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/archiveDS/archiveDownload?t=arch-379-1%2Fdissemination%2Fpdf%2Fvol_77_sup%2Fsurreyac077_m001-m094_poulton-a.pdf |url-status= live }}</ref> but archaeological evidence from this period elsewhere in the town is sparse.<ref name=Robertson_2003/>
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