Monument record MDO8807 - Bronze Age barrow, Quomp Copse, Hurn

A Bronze Age barrow, one of a row of five barrows along a ridgeway in Quomp Copse, is visible on an RAF 1954 aerial photograph and on current Lidar imagery. The features were digitally plotted during the Dorset Stour NMP. Summary from record MWX3165: One of a group of five bowl barrows in Quomp Copse. Summary from record MWX3298: A Bronze Age round barrow cemetery containing five bowl barrows situated in a line, orientated north east-south west, on the edge of a ridge in Quomp Copse, 540 metres east of park Cottages. The mounds of the barrows vary in diameter between 7.5 metres and 13 metres and in height between 0.6 metres and 1 metre. Each mound is surrounded by a ditch from which material for its construction was quarried. The north eastern and south western barrow, at each end of the line, lie within circular earthwork enclosures. These include a bank, ditch and outer bank with overall diameters of 20 metres and 30 metres respectively; they are believed to be tree planting enclosures of a more recent date. Scheduled.

Group of barrows in Quomp Copse - see plan: SZ 1310096270: No 2. A bowl barrow 13m diameter with fairly distinct edge. Small irregular depression about 0.4m across in centre, no surrounding ditch visible. <1>

A Bronze Age barrow, one of a row of five barrows along a ridgeway in Quomp Copse, is visible on an RAF 1954 aerial photograph and on current Lidar imagery <2 and 3>.

On current Lidar imagery this feature is shown as a low mound measuring around 11m in diameter, with the southeast side slightly indented <3>. It is situated closely adjacent to the north side of another of the barrows visible in this group (MDO39665).

The barrow is visible under early plantation on an RAF aerial photograph dated 1954 <2>. It is under tree cover on current Google Earth imagery <4>.

The features were digitally plotted by the Dorset Stour NMP.

Aitken, P, 1975, A Group of Earthworks in Quomp Copse, Hurn (Unpublished document). SDO21186.

Jefferies, Jeff, 1999, The Barrows of Christchurch. Their Past, Present and Future, Appendix 1. Barrow Record 27 (Unpublished document). SDO20590.

<1> Yonge, E, 1975, Letter (Miss E Yonge Secretary South Wessex Archaeological Association 18/11/1975) (Unpublished document). SWX3931.

<2> Royal Air Force, 07-OCT-54, RAF/58/1593 F22 0013-4 (Aerial Photograph). SDO15543.

<2> DCMS, 1997, Scheduled Monument Notification 1997, 06/08/1997 (Scheduling record). SDO17426.

<3> Jefferies, Jeff, 1999, The Barrows of Christchurch. Their Past, Present and Future, Appendix 1. Barrow Record 33 (Unpublished document). SDO20590.

<3> XX-XXX-2015, Environment Agency DTM Lidar 1m (Aerial Photograph). SDO15442.

<4> Google Earth, 2017, Google Earth 2017 (Aerial Photograph). SDO15388.

<5> National Record of the Historic Environment, 458505 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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Dec 21 2024 7:12AM