Monument record MDO5568 - Bronze Age bell barrow, one of the Wyke Down Group, Gussage All Saints

A bell barrow reported in 1975 as being around 65 feet in diameter with a mound 5 feet high, surrounded by a berm 12 feet wide and a broad ditch 16 feet wide. The barrow’s sides have been pared away by ploughing. Part of the barrow group on Wyke Down.

A bell barrow, part of the barrow group on Wyke Down (see SU 01 NW 35 and associated monuments). RCHME described it as having been "pared away" by ploughing, but formerly a mound 65 feet in diameter and 5 feet high, surrounded by a berm 12 feet wide and a broad ditch. Grinsell measured the ditch at 16 feet wide. <1, 2>

NB this barrow was formerly recorded as part of SU 01 NW 35.

<1> Grinsell, L V, 1959, Dorset Barrows, 111, 163 (Monograph). SDO132.

<2> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1975, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume V (East), 21 (Monograph). SDO129.

'(44) Bell (00731541), now pared away by ploughing; mound formerly 65 ft. in diam. and 5 ft. high, with a berm 12 ft. wide.'

<3> National Record of the Historic Environment, 1313056 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Feb 27 2023 11:20AM