Monument record MWX3300 - Quomp Copse: Bronze Age round barrow

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 1312796291: No 1. A low spread mound 10m diameter surrounded by berm, bank, and ditch. Small depression, 1m across and 0.3m deep may indicate previous excavations but more likely removal of tree roots. 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> Yonge, E, 1975, Letter (Miss E Yonge Secretary South Wessex Archaeological Association 18/11/1975) (Unpublished document). SWX3931.

<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 Barrow Record 35 (Unpublished document). SDO20590.

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