More information : Three low mounds of uncertain date were discovered on Kipscombe Hill during field reconnaissance.
SS 76494934. 33m south-south-east of the Triangulation Station on the summit of Kipscombe Hill is a low circular mound 15-7m in diameter and 0.4m high. In form it is a low rise or swelling on the crest of the south facing slopes of the hill.
SS 7684944. On the east facing slopes of Kipscombe Hill, and bisected by a modern west-east fence, is a sub circular rise or swelling 11m in diameter and 0.3m high.
SS 7670494929. On the south-east facing slopes of Kipscombe Hill is a slight rise or swelling 10m in diameter and 0.3m high.
Kipscombe Hill was enclosed after WW2. (1-2)
This mound, the first of the three mounds described by the above authority, is visible as an earthwork roughly 18 metres in diameter on aerial photographs of 1952 and 1972, centred on circa SS 76494934. The mounds at SS 76844944 and SS 76704929 are now recorded individually as NMR UID 1460836 and 1460841.
This mound is similar in appearance and size to the bowl barrow recorded to the south-east of Kipscombe Hill at SS 771491 (NMR UID 35124) and it is suggested here that it may also be the remains of a small round barrow.
In addition, the systematic examination of all available aerial photographs of Exmoor as part of the Exmoor National Park National Mapping Programme (NMP) project has identified at least 6 further possible mounds of similar dimesions on Kipscombe Hill. These earthworks comprise a roughly linear group along the eastern group of Kipscombe Hill, and if proved to be small barrows, may form a cemetery similar in alignment, if not scale, to other barrow cemeteries on Exmoor, such as the Chapman Barrows (NMR UID 35260). (3-4)
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