Monument record MWX540 - Goggins Barrow, Osmington

Natural ? <1>

Goggins Barrow. Applies to a prominent mound situated on edge of cliff about 15 chains north-west of Osmington Mills; supposed to be of ancient British construction. <1> <3>

A natural mound with an east-west diameter of 16.0 metres, and a height of 0.6 metres. The mound is grass covered on the north, but the south half has been eroded, exposing its formation of 0.3 metres of topsoil upon a strata of shale. <4>

Coggins Barrow on cliff edge, is natural. <5>

<1> Ordnance Survey, 1901, Ordnance Survey Object Name Book reference revision 1901, 4 (Unpublished document). SWX1268.

<1.1> Sarjent, W, W Sarjent Asst Overseer East Farm (Unpublished document). SWX8423.

<2> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1903, Dorset 58 NE/SE (Map). SWX1540.

Goggins Barrow (NR)

<3> Grinsell, L V, 1934-55, Dorset Barrows (Unpublished document). SWX4483.

<4> Quinnell, N V, Various, Field Investigators Comments NVQ, F1 NVQ 17-DEC-54 (Unpublished document). SDO11903.

<5> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume II (South East) Part 3, 447 (Monograph). SDO150.

<6> Royal Commission on Historic Monuments, Externally held archive: RCH01/093 RCHME Inventory: Dorset II (South-East) (Unpublished document). SDO17434.

<7> National Record of the Historic Environment, 454328 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Sep 6 2024 4:39PM