Monument record MDO44544 - Possible Bronze Age bowl barrow, Gussage All Saints

A possible Bronze Age bowl barrow. It may possibly represent upcast spoil from quarrying or a mound associated with a later prehistoric enclosure within which this mound is situated. Disturbed since recorded as a mound on the 1902 edition of the Ordnance Survey 6" map.

A possible Bronze Age bowl barrow listed by Grinsell as such, although Grinsell himself had his doubts, suggesting that the mound may in fact represent upcast spoil from quarrying. Ordnance Survey field investigation noted that the feature in question, marked as a mound on the 1902 edition of the Ordnance Survey 6" map, is now visible as a T-shaped hollow(!). More recently, traces of a later prehistoric enclosure (SU 01 SW 48) have been discovered in the same field, and it has been suggested that the mound may be associated with this settlement. The same suggestion has been made for bowl barrow SU 01 SW 9.

<1> Grinsell, L V, 1959, Dorset Barrows, 110 (Monograph). SDO132.

<2> Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, 1986, Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society for 1985, 154-5 (Serial). SDO85.

<3> National Record of the Historic Environment, 1309219 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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Oct 19 2022 2:52PM