Monument record MDO2469 - Bronze Age round barrow, 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. (2)

Bowl barrows on Golden Cap are as follows:

SY 40589214 (A). 8 paces dia by 2 ft high
SY 40589211 (B). 11 paces dia by 2 ft high
SY 40569209 ©. 13 paces dia by 2 1/2ft high
SY 40549207 (D). 12 paces dia by 2 1/2ft high (3)

One of five Bronze Age earthworks on Golden Cap. This one in particular is 34 ft in diameter and 2.5 ft high. (1)

Excavated 1992. Mound consisted of large blocks of chert, 16m by 1.2m high. Finely worked flint tool was only prehistoric object found. Mound had been adapted to form a Napoleonic signal station in use from 1798 to 1814.

One of five Bronze Age round barrows on Golden Cap. The barrow is visible as an extant feature on lidar taken in 2008 (2). The site was digitally plotted during the South West Rapid Coastal Zone Assessment Survey (Dorset).

Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1968 (Map). SWX1540.

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

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

<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.

<2> Channel Coastal Observatory, 23-MAR-2008, Lidar (Photograph). SDO12878.

<4> Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, 1993, Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society for 1992, 240 (Serial). SDO92.

Record last edited

Oct 7 2024 2:22PM