Monument record MDO46419 - Probable Bronze Age bowl barrow, Furze Hill, Morden
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A ring ditch visible as cropmarks on air photographs taken on July 25th 2001. It lies among a group of extant, if denuded, mounds, some of which are scheduled (see associated monuments). The cropmark comprises a dark circular area 15 metres in diameter surrounded by a ditch up to 28 metres in diameter. Among the scatter of barrows, it forms a short linear group. <1>
A probable Bronze Age bowl barrow is visible as a ring ditch cropmark on a 2001 aerial photograph <2>. The feature is 25m in diameter at its outer measurement and forms the southwesternmost of a short linear arrangement of three barrows, part of a larger barrow group. It was digitally plotted during the Dorset Middle Stour AIM project.
<1> National Monuments Record, 25-JUL-2001, NMR 21352/11 SY 9198/1 (Aerial Photograph). SDO20069.
<2> National Monuments Record, 25-JUL-2001, NMR 21352/14 (Aerial Photograph). SDO19919.
<3> National Record of the Historic Environment, 1382973 (Digital archive). SDO14739.
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Location
Grid reference | SY 9183 9799 (point) |
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Map sheet | SY99NW |
Civil Parish | Morden; Dorset |
Protected Status/Designation
- None recorded
Other Statuses/References
- Legacy UID: National Monuments Record: SY 99 NW 74
- Legacy UID: National Record of the Historic Environment: 1382973
Record last edited
Sep 8 2023 11:40AM