Monument record MDO2468 - Golden Cap, Bronze Age bowl barrow, Stanton St Gabriel

Mound (one of five) - probably the remains of bowl barrows - on Golden Cap. The low mound is visible as an extant feature on lidar taken in 2008.

(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 40589211 (B). 11 paces dia by 2 ft 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

Oct 7 2024 2:22PM