Monument record MDO2467 - Bowl barrow on Golden Cap, Stanton St Gabriel

(Centred SY 405921). Four mounds on Golden Cap, probably the remains of bowl barrows, in a group at the SW 3nd of the hill-top. <1>

Bowl barrows on Golden Cap are as follows: SY 40569209 (C). 13 paces dia by 2 1/2ft high. <2>

One of five Bronze Age round barrows on Golden Cap. The barrow is visible as an extant feature on lidar taken in 2008 <4>. The site was digitally plotted during the South West Rapid Coastal Zone Assessment Survey (Dorset).

<1> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments England, 1952, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume I (West), 223-4 (Monograph). SDO97.

'(5) MOUNDS, probably the remains of bowl barrows, on Golden Cap, over ¼ m. S.E. of the old chapel, are five in number. Four form a group at the S.W. end of the hill-top and the fifth is about 200 yards to the N.E. The dimensions are as follows—(a) 25 ft. diam. and 1 ft. high; (b) 40 ft. diam. and 3½ ft. high; (c) 39 ft. diam. and 3½ ft. high; (d) on the cliff edge, 34 ft. diam. and 2½ ft. high; (e) 40 ft. diam. and 3½ ft. high. All have been much disturbed and denuded.'

<2> Grinsell, L V, 1959, Dorset Barrows, 131 (Monograph). SDO132.

<3> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1968 (Map). SWX1540.

('B' - SY 40569211; 'C' - SY 40559210; 'D' - SY 40549208) Tumuli (NR)

<4> Channel Coastal Observatory, 23-MAR-2008, Lidar (Photograph). SDO12878.

<5> Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, 2013, Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society for 2012, 205-47 (Serial). SDO16328.

<6> National Record of the Historic Environment, 450221 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Jan 16 2025 6:28PM