Editing Guildford (section)

===Early history===
[[File:An Iron Age Gold quarter stater from SURREY NULL Celtic Coin Index reference, 74.0154 (FindID 326189).jpg|thumb|right|An [[British Iron Age|Iron Age]] gold [[Celtic currency of Britain|quarter stater]] coin, found in Guildford in 1974<ref>{{cite web |last= Williams |first= David |title= Coin |publisher= Portable Antiquities Scheme |url= https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/326189 |date= 21 March 2010 |access-date= 10 August 2022 |archive-date= 10 August 2022 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20220810203524/https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/326189 |url-status= live }}</ref>]]
The earliest evidence of human activity in the Guildford area is from [[St Catherine's Hill, Surrey|St Catherine's Hill]], where [[Mesolithic]] flint tools have been found.<ref>{{cite journal |last= Gabel |first= G. |year= 1976 |title= St Catherine's Hill: a Mesolithic Site near Guildford |journal= Surrey Archaeological Society Research Volumes |volume= 3 |pages= 77–101 |url= https://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/catalogue/adsdata/arch-2249-1/dissemination/pdf/r_vol_3/surreyrv003_077-101_gabel.pdf |access-date= 11 July 2022 |archive-date= 12 July 2022 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20220712182020/https://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/archiveDS/archiveDownload?t=arch-2249-1/dissemination/pdf/r_vol_3/surreyrv003_077-101_gabel.pdf |url-status= live }}</ref> There may also have been [[Bronze Age Britain|Bronze Age]] and [[British Iron Age|Iron Age]] settlements on the hill.<ref name=Field_2022_pp1-2/> The areas now occupied by [[Christ's College, Guildford|Christ's College]] and Manor Farm were farmed in the Bronze Age, Iron Age and [[Roman Britain|Roman period]].<ref>''Bronze Age and Roman farming and settlement at Christ's College School, Guildford'' 40 pages, Spoilheap Publications, Woking {{ISBN|0955884667}} radiocarbon dated finds. By Archaeology South-East, Surrey County Unit, Rebecca Lambert, Phil Jones, Nick Marples, L. Allott and D. Young, 2012.</ref><ref>{{cite web <!-- Citation bot bypass--> |last= English |first= Judie |year= 1999 |title= Evaluation excavation at Manor Farm, Guildford |publisher= Surrey Archaeological Society |doi= 10.5284/1027444 |url= https://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/catalogue/adsdata/arch-1352-1/dissemination/pdf/Surrey/GL10036.pdf |access-date= 11 July 2022 |archive-date= 12 July 2022 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20220712182021/https://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/archiveDS/archiveDownload?t=arch-1352-1/dissemination/pdf/Surrey/GL10036.pdf |url-status= live }}{{cbignore}}</ref> Traces of a 2nd-century [[Roman villa|villa]] were discovered at [[Broadstreet, Backside and Rydes Commons|Broadstreet Common]] during an excavation in 1998.<ref>{{cite journal |last= Poulton |first= Rob |year= 1999 |title= The excavation of a Roman settlement site adjacent to Broad Street Common, Worplesdon, Surrey |journal= Surrey Archaeological Society Bulletin |volume= 334 |pages= 1–6 |url= https://www.surreyarchaeology.org.uk/sites/default/files/SAS334.pdf |access-date= 11 July 2022 |archive-date= 14 May 2021 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20210514000235/https://www.surreyarchaeology.org.uk/sites/default/files/SAS334.pdf |url-status= live }}</ref>