Monument record MDO5553 - Round barrow, one of the Drive Plantation Group, Gussage All Saints

A ring ditch visible as a cropmark on air photographs, one of a number of plough-levelled barrows located east of Drive Plantation (see SU 01 SW 3 and associated monument records). RCHME described the ring ditch as being circa 100 feet in diameter, around twice the size of others in the vicinity.

<1> 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. ... Drive Plantation Group (Plate 55) comprises at least eleven round barrows, of which three and a long barrow lie in WIMBORNE ST. GILES (see p. 101). Those in Gussage All Saints have been levelled and are visible only as ring-ditches on air photographs (C.U.A.P., ANE 34, 35; N.M.R., SU 0015/6). They lie E. of the plantation on a gentle W. slope, between 220 ft. and 260 ft. above O.D. The majority appear to be in the order of 50 ft. in diameter, except (29) which measures over 100 ft. Map-references are approximate. ... (29) Barrow (01251455).'

<2> Grinsell, L V, 1982, Dorset Barrows Supplement, 40 (Monograph). SWX1703.

<3> National Record of the Historic Environment, 1309134 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Oct 17 2022 4:40PM