Monument record MDO5573 - Disc barrow, one of the Wyke Down Group, Gussage All Saints

A disc barrow, part of the Wyke Down Group of barrows. One of a cluster of round barrows on a south-facing slope. In 1975 this monument was reported as having a mound formerly around 40 feet in diameter and 1 foot high. It is surrounded by a berm 45 feet across, and a surrounding ditch 20 feet wide with an outer bank also 20 feet wide. Damaged by ploughing.

A disc barrow, part of the barrow group on Wyke Down (see SU 01 NW 35 and associated monuments). It was described by RCHME as a mound formerly 40 feet in diameter and 1 foot high, surrounded by a berm 45 feet across, and a surrounding ditch 20 feet wide with an outer bank also 20 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, 168 (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.

'(49) Disc (00801548); mound, formerly 40 ft. in diam. And 1 ft. high with a berm 45 ft. across, with a surrounding ditch 20 ft. wide and with an outer bank of similar width'.

<3> National Record of the Historic Environment, 1313094 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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