Monument record MDO5546 - Bowl barrow west of Harley Wood, Gussage All Saints

A possible Bronze Age bowl barrow located immediately west of Harley Wood. Approximately 10m in diameter. Damaged by ploughing. It’s identification as a barrow has been in doubt since the discovery of a later prehistoric enclosure now known to exist in this field. It has been suggested that the mound may in fact be part of the earthworks associated with the enclosure.

SU 00131291 Bowl barrow, immediately west of Harley Wood, has been damaged by ploughing; diameter 34 ft, height 1 ft. <3>

The barrow, and another located by Grimell at SU 0041 1288, are both very doubtful and are more likely to be parts of an Iron Age earthwork (SU 01 SW 48) now known to exist in this field. Copy of AP slide is in DCM, catalogue Np P23, 623. <4>

<1> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1902 (Map). SWX1540.

(SU 00131291) Tumulus (NR)

<2> Grinsell, L V, 1959, Dorset Barrows, 110 (Monograph). SDO132.

<3> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1975, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume V (East), 21 (Monograph). SDO129.

'Forty-one round barrows, the majority disposed in three groups, are detectable within the parish. They nearly all lie in the N., on the S.W. slopes of a low ridge between 200 ft. and 350 ft. above O.D. Most of them have been severely damaged or levelled by ploughing. (22) Bowl (00131291), immediatel W. of Harley Wood, has been damaged by ploughing; diam. 34 ft., ht. 1 ft.'

<4> Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, 1986, Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society for 1985, 154-5 (Serial). SDO85.

<5> Bowen, H C, 1990, The Archaeology of Bokerley Dyke, Area Plan 2 (Monograph). SWX800.

<6> Bowen, H C, 1991, The Archaeology of Bokerley Dyke: Inventory, 27 (Monograph). SDO14864.

<7> National Record of the Historic Environment, 213766 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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Nov 11 2024 4:07PM