Monument record MDO39664 - Bronze Age barrow, Quomp Copse, Hurn

A Bronze Age barrow, one of a row of five barrows along a ridgeway in Quomp Copse, is visible on an RAF 1954 aerial photograph and on current Lidar imagery. The barrow was digitally plotted by the Dorset Stour NMP.

Group of barrows in Quomp Copse - see plan: SZ 1309096244: No 4. A bowl barrow 10m diameter, indistinct to NE where it merges with No 3 and to the South. Small depression 0.5m across NE of summit. No surrounding ditch visible. <1>

A Bronze Age barrow, one of a row of five barrows along a ridgeway in Quomp Copse, is visible on an RAF 1954 aerial photograph and on current Lidar imagery <2 and 3>.

The barrow may be the feature already recorded in the Dorset HER as MDO8809 and MWX3259 but to avoid confusion, the barrow recorded here was digitally plotted by the Dorset Stour NMP. The barrow group is recorded under NHRE Hob UID 458505, with this barrow thought to be number 4.

On current Lidar imagery this feature is shown as a low oval mound measuring around 10.5m by 7m, with a narrow ditch visible along its south, west and north sides <3>. It is situated on the brow of a small rise of ground above a later east-west aligned trackway, which divides this barrow from the southernmost of the group of five (MDO8810).

The barrow is clearly visible under early plantation on an RAF aerial photograph dated 1954 <2>

The features were digitally plotted by the Dorset Stour NMP.

<1> Yonge, E, Letter, Miss E Yonge (Secretary) South Wessex Archaeological Association (SWAA), 18 November 1975 (Unpublished document). SWX3933.

<2> Royal Air Force, 07-OCT-54, RAF/58/1593 F22 0013-4 (Aerial Photograph). SDO15543.

<3> XX-XXX-2015, Environment Agency DTM Lidar 1m (Aerial Photograph). SDO15442.

<4> Google Earth, 2017, Google Earth 2017 (Aerial Photograph). SDO15388.

<5> National Record of the Historic Environment, 458505 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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Dec 21 2024 7:15AM