Monument record MDO5628 - Bowl Barrow on Gussage Hill, Gussage St Michael

A round barrow on Gussage Hill. RCHME fieldwork recorded the mound as circa 30 feet in diameter and less than 1 foot high. Colt Hoare depicts two round barrows immediately adjacent to one another on his plan of the Gussage Down earthworks. There is no surviving evidence for a second mound (although that does not mean that one didn't exist) and it may mean that he has merely depicted this barrow and ST 91 SE 159 rather closer together than they are in reality.

NB this barrow was previously recorded as part of ST 91 SE 6.

<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.

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.

(27) Bowl (98581404); diam. About 30 ft., ht. under 1 ft.'

<3> Colt Hoare, Sir Richard, 1975, The ancient history of Wiltshire, Plate between p30-31, Vol 2 "Roman Aera" (Monograph). SDO18077.

<4> Bowen, H C, 1990, The Archaeology of Bokerley Dyke (Monograph). SWX800.

<5> National Record of the Historic Environment, 1302784 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Dec 12 2024 4:26PM