Monument record MDO5569 - Bowl barrow, one of the Wyke Down Group, Gussage All Saints

A bowl barrow, part of the Wyke Down Group of barrows. Described in 1975 as having a former diameter of 70 feet and being 3 feet high. Plough damaged.

A bowl barrow, part of the barrow group on Wyke Down (see SU 01 NW 35 and associated monuments). RCHME described it as a plough damaged mound formerly 70 feet in diameter and 3 feet high. <1, 2>

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

<1> Grinsell, L V, 1959, Dorset Barrows, 110-1 (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.

'Wyke Down Group comprises seventeen barrows including at least one disc barrow and one bell barrow, in a compact cluster on the gentle S. slope of the down, about 250 ft. above O.D. (Plate 48). All have been damaged by ploughing, most of them severely, and some are visible only on air photographs (58/RAF/3250; 0086; C.U.A.P., NK 4, YN 28; N.M.R. 9609/1: SU/0015/1/327). (45) Bowl (00791542); former diam. 70 ft., ht. 3 ft.'

<3> National Record of the Historic Environment, 1313069 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Oct 25 2022 12:01PM