Monument record MDO5617 - Bowl barrow, one of the Thickthorn Down Group, Gussage St Michael

A bowl barrow located close to the long barrow ST 91 SE 23, a short distance southeast of the terminal of the Dorset Cursus (Linear 41). RCHME fieldwork recorded the barrow as a mound 35 feet in diameter and up to 2.5 feet high, surrounded by a ditch 9 feet across. The mound has a large hole in the centre, presumably the result of unrecorded antiquarian (or perhaps more recent) excavation. The immediately adjacent round barrow formerly described here has now been recorded separately as ST 91 SE 163. <5>

<1> Grinsell, L V, 1959, Dorset Barrows, 112 (Monograph). SDO132.

<2> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey map 6 inches to 1 mile, 1963 (Map). SDO11924.

(ST 97221224:ST 97221226) Tumuli (NR)

<3> Royal Commission on Historic Monuments, Externally held archive: RCH01/091 RCHME Inventory: Dorset V (East), RCH01/091 (Unpublished document). SDO18032.

<4> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1975, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume V (East), 26 (Monograph). SDO129.

'Thickthorn Down Group, comprising two round barrows (16) and (17) and two long barrows (11) and (12) is sited on the crest of the ridge, S.E. of the S.W. end of the Cursus (9). (16) Bowl (97221224), 20 yds. S.E. of (11), is much damaged by a large hole in the centre; diam. 35 ft., ht. 2½ ft., with remains of ditch 9 ft. across.'

<5> National Record of the Historic Environment, 210027 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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