Monument record MDO5554 - Bronze Age bowl barrow, one of the Drive Plantation Group, Gussage All Saints

Bronze Age round barrow of a type known as a bowl barrow, now levelled by ploughing. Approximately 13m in diameter. Forms part of the Drive Plantation Group. Situated on the parish boundary between Gussage All Saints and Wimborne St Giles.

A Bronze Age round barrow, now levelled by ploughing and visible on air photographs as a cropmark ring ditch. The barrow straddles the parish boundary between Gussage All Saints and Wimborne St Giles. It forms part of a cluster of round barrows, ring ditches and other features spread across neighbouring fields. It was formerly recorded as part of SU 01 SW 20.

<1> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1975, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume V (East), 21 (Monograph). SDO129.

'Forty-one round barrows, the majority disposed in three groups, are detectable within the parish. They nearly all lie in the N., on the S.W. slopes of a low ridge between 200 ft. and 350 ft. above O.D. Most of them have been severely damaged or levelled by ploughing. ... Drive Plantation Group (Plate 55) comprises at least eleven round barrows, of which three and a long barrow lie in WIMBORNE ST. GILES (see p. 101). Those in Gussage All Saints have been levelled and are visible only as ring-ditches on air photographs (C.U.A.P., ANE 34, 35; N.M.R., SU 0015/6). They lie E. of the plantation on a gentle W. slope, between 220 ft. and 260 ft. above O.D. The majority appear to be in the order of 50 ft. in diameter, except (29) which measures over 100 ft. Map-references are approximate. ... (30) Bowl (01321463), on the parish boundary with Wimborne St. Giles, has been totally levelled by ploughing.'

<2> Grinsell, L V, 1982, Dorset Barrows Supplement, 40 (Monograph). SWX1703.

<3> National Monuments Record, NMR 4509: 48-51, 55, 62, 65 (Aerial Photograph). SDO18681.

<4> National Monuments Record, NMR 4443: 31-4 (Aerial Photograph). SDO18682.

<5> National Monuments Record, NMR 15829/19-22 (Aerial Photograph). SDO18678.

<6> National Monuments Record, NMR 15810/32-36 (Aerial Photograph). SDO18679.

<7> National Record of the Historic Environment, 1309297 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Nov 10 2022 11:39AM