Monument record MDO5618 - Bowl barrow, one of the Thickthorn Down Group, Gussage St Michael

A bowl barrow 50 feet in diameter and 3 feet high, surrounded by a ditch 16 feet across. Cut by a hedge on one side of the barrow. A hole in the centre of the mound is presumably the result of an unrecorded antiquarian excavation.

A bowl barrow located close to the long barrow ST 91 SE 23, and immediately adjacent to the bowl barrow ST 91 SE 19, a short distance southeast of the terminal of the Dorset Cursus (Linear 41). RCHME fieldwork recorded the barrow as a mound 50 feet in diameter and 3 feet high, surrounded by a ditch 16 feet across. A hedge cuts across one side of the barrow, and the mound also has a hole in the centre, presumably the result of an unrecorded antiquarian excavation. This barrow was originally recorded as part of ST 91 SE 19. That record should be consulted for further details and additional sources.

<1> Grinsell, L V, 1959, Dorset Barrows, p112 (Monograph). SDO132.

<2> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1975, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume V (East), p26 (Monograph). SDO129.

' There is evidence of twenty round barrows in the parish, most of them levelled or badly damaged by ploughing. They are found on the two Chalk ridges which cross the parish, Week Street Down in the extreme W. and Gussage Hill in the centre.
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).
(17) Bowl (97221226), immediately N. of (11) and adjoining (16), has been damaged by a hole in the centre and by a hedge which cuts across its N.E. side; diam. 50 ft., ht. 3 ft., with a dtitch 16 ft. across.'

<3> National Record of the Historic Environment, 1302877 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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