Monument record MDO5570 - Bowl barrow, one of the Wyke Down Group, Gussage All Saints

A bowl barrow, part of the Wyke Down Group of barrows. Slight traces of a surrounding ditch. In 1975 this monument was reported as having a former diameter of 90 feet. Plough damaged.

A bowl barrow, part of the barrow group on Wyke Down (see SU 01 NW 35 and associated monuments). It was described by RCHME as a plough damaged mound formerly 90 feet in diameter. Grinsell noted slight traces of a surrounding ditch. <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). (46) Bowl (00711546); former diam. 90 ft.'

<3> National Record of the Historic Environment, 1313084 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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