Monument record MDO5633 - Bowl Barrow, one of the Gussage Hill Group, Gussage St Michael

A round barrow situated within the earthworks of a prehistoric settlement. In 1975 this monument was reported as being around 52 feet in diameter with a mound about six feet high, and reduced by ploughing.

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 barrows located just south of the Dorset Cursus (Linear 41). RCHME fieldwork recorded the barrow as a mound 52 feet in diameter and 6 feet high, but reduced by ploughing.

(ST 99681372) Tumulus (NR). <2>

A bowl barrow on the summit of Gussage Hill lies among the earthworks of the settlement (ST 91 SE 3). It is 52ft in diameter and 6ft high but has been reduced by ploughing. <3>

'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).

(32) Bowl (99691372); diam., reduced by ploughing, 52 ft. ht. 6 ft.' <3>

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

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

<3> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1975, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume V (East), p26 (Monograph). SDO129.

<4> National Record of the Historic Environment, 210020 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

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