Monument record MDO5631 - Bowl barrow, one of the Gussage Hill Group, Gussage St Michael

A bowl barrow on Gussage Hill, located among the earthworks of the later prehistoric settlement (ST 91 SE 3), and part of a small group of barrow located just south of the Dorset Cursus (Linear 41). RCHME fieldwork recorded the barrow as a mound almost completely flattened by ploughing and circa 25 feet in diameter.

NB This barrow was formerly recorded as part of ST 91 SE 11.

<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.

Gussage Hill Group comprises four round barrows (29-32) and two long barrows (14) and (15). They lie on the summit of the hill, over 350 ft. above O.D., among the earthworks of Monument (7).

(30) Bowl (99481369), almost totally flattened by ploughing; diam. about 25 ft.'

<3> National Record of the Historic Environment, 1302791 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Aug 23 2022 4:21PM