MSO8845 - Cutcombe Barrow (Monument)

[SS 9649 3571) Cutcombe Barrow (NR). [1] SS 9650 3571. Brompton Regis 1. A bowl barrow 23 paces diameter and 3.5 feet. high. Visited by Grinsell 10th May 1952. He suspects that the name Cutcombe Barrow may possibly have been originated by the Ordnance Survey during the original survey of 1790-1810 for convenience of reference. It is named Western Barrow on the 1838 tithe map (but the present name appears on 1809 1 inch 1st Edition Ordnance Survey map). [2,3] This is a bowl barrow 1.3 metres. high. Surveyed at 1/2500. [4] The barrow known as Cutcombe Barrow lies at the edge of a pasture field, and measures 22 metres in diameter and 1.7 metres high. It comprises a smoothed grass covered mound. On its eastern side the hedgebank clips the edge of the barrow and several large quartz blocks are visible on the ground. [5] The remains of the Bronze Age bowl barrow described by the previous authorities was seen as an earthwork and mapped from aerial photographs. [6-8] This record was enhanced as part of the National Record of the Historic Environment to Exmoor National Park Historic Environment Record data transfer project. [13] Cutcombe Barrow is labelled on the 2022 MasterMap data. [14]