Monument record MDO46461 - Bronze Age bowl barrow, Furze Hill, Morden

A probable Bronze Age bowl barrow on Furze Hill, Morden, is visible as a ring ditch cropmark and earthworks on aerial photographs and current Environment Agency Lidar imagery. The feature is situated within a larger barrow group and was digitally plotted during the Dorset Middle Stour AIM project.

A ring ditch is visible as cropmarks on air photographs taken July 25th 2001. Circa 21 metres in diameter, it lies at the eastern end of a dispersed groups of barrows and ring ditches. <1>

A probable Bronze Age bowl barrow is visible as a ring ditch cropmark and earthworks on aerial photographs and current Environment Agency Lidar imagery <2-4>. The feature comprises a 17m in diameter mound, visible on a 1940s aerial photograph and lidar imagery <2, 4> and an outer ditch of approximately 1.2m width, visible as a cropmark ring ditch <3>. It is situated within a larger barrow group and 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> Royal Air Force, 17-JAN-1947, RAF/CPE/UK/1934 FS 2134 (Aerial Photograph). SDO19918.

<3> National Monuments Record, 25-JUL-2001, NMR 21352/14 (Aerial Photograph). SDO19919.

<4> Environment Agency, 16-NOV-2021, LIDAR Environment Agency DTM (Aerial Photograph). SDO18034.

<5> National Record of the Historic Environment, 1382979 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Sep 8 2023 11:36AM