FURTHER pressure has been put on Hampshire Constabulary after damage to a 4,000 year-old burial mound has been happening on an “almost daily basis”.

Whitehill resident and a trustee of the Woolmer Forest Heritage Society, Christopher Perry has blamed the issue on “police inaction” and added: “I cannot understand why the Hampshire police refuse to act when they have so much information online to make them aware of the criminal offence of the destruction of heritage.”

Mr Perry continued that when he tries to report the crime, he is told it is a “civil offence, but this is in direct conflict with the police’s own website and the law”.

As reported in last week’s Herald, a “white Isuzu truck” was seen driving over the Bronze Age burial mound outside Whitehill Village Hall, which is legally protected as a “scheduled ancient monument”. This means it is a “criminal offence to damage them in anyway”, according to councillor and historian, Adam Carew.

*See next week’s paper for Hampshire Constabulary’s response.