Monument record MDO7823 - Bowl barrow, Morden

A Bronze Age bowl barrow on Furze Hill, Morden, is visible as a sub-circular earthwork on aerial photographs and current Environment Agency lidar imagery. The feature was digitally plotted during the Dorset Middle Stour AIM project.

D (SY 9178 9800) is a large approximately circular mound, irregular in shape and apparently natural. <1>

The four features are correctly described in Auth.3 By the way in which the slopes of 'B' 'C' and 'D' merge into the surrounding slopes they are probably natural. 'A' is almost certainly the feature referred to in Auth. 1 though badly mutilated the abrupt junction of its slopes with the surrounding slopes makes the mound appear artificial. In view of the proximity of 'B' 'C' & 'D' however, 'A' too may be natural. One possible Bowl Barrow and three probable natural features. <2>

'A' and 'E' in woodland, the other probable barrows are in arable. 'A', 'B', 'C' and 'E' surveyed and 'D' resurveyed at 1:2500 on M.S.D. (5) 23/02/1981 barton

SY 91779799. Probable bowl (?) barrow, diameter 23.0 metres approximately, height 0.6 metres. Ploughed. No visible ditch.<3>

A Bronze Age bowl barrow on Furze Hill, Morden, is visible as a sub-circular earthwork between 15m and 25m in diameter on aerial photographs <4> and current Environment Agency lidar imagery <4>. The feature was digitally plotted during the Dorset Middle Stour AIM project.

<1> Swatridge, G C, Various, Field Investigators Comments GCS, F1 GCS 04-NOV-1954 (Unpublished document). SWX1169.

<2> Rigg, J, Field Investigators Comments JR, F2 JR 12-NOV-1954 (Unpublished document). SWX1255.

<3> Barton, J G, Various, Field Investigators Comments JGB, F3 JGB 23-FEB-1981 (Unpublished document). SDO11900.

<4> Royal Air Force, 17-JAN-1947, RAF/CPE/UK/1934 FS 2134 (Aerial Photograph). SDO19918.

<5> Environment Agency, 16-NOV-2021, LIDAR Environment Agency DTM (Aerial Photograph). SDO18034.

<6> National Record of the Historic Environment, 457224 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

<7> National Record of the Historic Environment, 1382970 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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Jan 20 2025 1:03PM