Monument record MDO5627 - Bowl Barrow on Gussage Hill, Gussage St Michael

Colt Hoare's plan shows two adjoining mounds, aligned roughly N to S, situated at the position of barrow (B). <1>

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

<1.1> Colt Hoare, Sir Richard, 1975, The ancient history of Wiltshire, Plate between pp30-31, Vol 2 (Monograph). SDO18077.

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

(ST 98361389; ST 98571404:ST 98771402) Tumulus (NR)

<3> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1975, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume V (East), 26 (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 … and Gussage Hill in the centre. … Three barrows, all heavily ploughed, lie on a spur at the N.W. end of Gussage Hill, between 325 ft. and 350 ft. above O.D. (26) Bowl (98361390); diam. about 100 ft., ht. under 1 ft.'

<4> National Record of the Historic Environment, 210010 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Dec 12 2024 4:28PM