Monument record MDO5562 - Bowl barrow in Drive Plantation, one of The Cursus Group of round barrows, Wyke Down Gussage All Saints

A bowl barrow, one of a large group of round barrows around the Dorset Cursus. In 1975 this monument was reported as being around 75 feet in diameter with a mound about 4 feet high.

Bowl barrow in Drive Plantation; diameter 75 ft, height 4 ft. <3>

A bowl barrow located in Drive Plantation, immediately south of the Dorset Cursus (Linear 41). Listed by RCHME as Gussage All Saints 38 and by Grinsell as Gussage All Saints 6, it was described by RCHME as a mound 75 feet in diameter and 4 feet high. <1> <3>

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

<2> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1963 (Map). SWX1540.

(SU 01181518) Tumulus (NR)

<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. … The Cursus Group consists of some twelve barrows scattered on either side of the junction of the Dorset Cursus and the Roman road, Ackling Dyke … The barrows of this group lie just N. of Drive Plantation Group and occupy a comparable situation. Most have been damaged by ploughing, and some have been totally levelled and are visible only on air photographs (58/RAF/3250: 0086; N.M.R., SU 0015/1/327; C.U.A.P., ANC 37). … (38) Bowl (01181518), in Drive Plantation; diam. 75 ft., ht. 4ft.'

<4> National Record of the Historic Environment, 213596 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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May 30 2022 4:25PM