Monument record MDO39667 - Possible Bronze Age barrow, Quomp Copse, Hurn

A low indistinct mound on the ridgeway within Quomp Copse is visible on current Lidar imagery. The feature may be a possible Bronze Age barrow, one of a wider barrow cemetery. The feature was digitally plotted by the Dorset Stour NMP.

A low indistinct mound on the ridgeway within Quomp Copse is visible on current Lidar imagery (1). The feature may be a possible Bronze Age barrow, one of a wider barrow cemetery on the ridgeway to the east (incorporated within MDOs 8807-10; MDOs 39664-7; MWX3257-9 and Hob UID 458505) .

On current Lidar imagery this feature is shown as a low mound measuring around 15-16m in diameter (1). The form of the mound is low and spread, with indistinct edges. A shallow depression north of its centre may be the result of tree removal, or possibly excavation. It may be the remains of a Bronze Age barrow but alternatively it could be a feature of natural origin.

The mound is under tree cover on current Google Earth imagery (2).

The feature was digitally plotted by the Dorset Stour NMP.

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

<2> Google Earth, 2017, Google Earth 2017 (Aerial Photograph). SDO15388.

Record last edited

Oct 17 2017 4:04PM