More information : A roughly circular mound on Kipscombe Hill, approximately 10 metres in diameter, centred on circa SS 77104936, may be the remains of a small barrow or cairn of Bronze Age date. The mound can be seen as a low earthwork on aerial photographs of 1952 but is more apparent on photographs of 1972, as a cropmark or soilmark, probably damaged by ploughing following the enclosure of Kipscombe Hill.
It is part of a group of 11 mounds visible running around the southern side of the summit of Kipscombe Hill between the 330 and 340 metre contour and along the hill¿s eastern ridge. If proven to be small barrows, the mounds may comprise a roughly linear cemetery, similar in arrangement if not scale, to larger cemeteries known elsewhere on Exmoor, such as the Chapman Barrows (NMR UID 35260). (1-2)
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