Monument record MDO46463 - Possible Bronze Age bowl barrow, Furze Hill, Morden

A possible Bronze Age bowl barrow on Furze Hill, Morden, is visible as a faint 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 possible Bronze Age bowl barrow is visible as a faint ring ditch cropmark and earthworks on aerial photographs and current Environment Agency Lidar imagery [1-3]. The feature comprises a very low sub-circular mound approximatley 15m in diameter, visible on lidar imagery [3] and suggested on a 1940s aerial photograph [1]. A possible outer ditch is visible as a faint ring ditch cropmark on a 2001 aerial photograph [2].

The feature is situated within a larger barrow group and was digitally plotted during the Dorset Middle Stour AIM project.

<1> Royal Air Force, 17-JAN-1947, RAF/CPE/UK/1934 FS 2134 (Aerial Photograph). SDO19918.

<2> Environment Agency, 16-NOV-2021, LIDAR Environment Agency DTM (Aerial Photograph). SDO18034.

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

Record last edited

Jul 3 2023 12:36PM