Monument record MDO5558 - Bowl barrow, north of the Dorset Cursus, one of The Cursus Group of round barrows, Gussage All Saints

A bowl barrow on the parish boundary with Gussage St Michael. In 1975 this monument was reported as being 75 feet in diameter with a mound 5 feet high, though with the edges of the mound being damaged by ploughing.

A bowl barrow located circa 70 yards north of the Dorset Cursus (Linear 41). Listed by RCHME as Gussage All Saints 34 and by Grinsell as Gussage All Saints 9, it lies on the boundary with the parish of Gussage St Michael. It was described by RCHME as a mound pared by ploughing on either side, and formerly measured at 75 feet in diameter and 5 feet high. <1> <3>

<1> Grinsell, L V, 1959, Dorset Barrows, 110-1 (Monograph). SDO132.

<2> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1963 (Map). SWX1540.

(SU 00791511) Tumulus (NR)

<3> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1975, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume V (East), 21 (Monograph). SDO129.

‘The Cursus Group consists of some twelve barrows scattered on either side of the junction of the Dorset Cursus and the Roman road, Ackling Dyke … The barrows of this group lie just N. of Drive Plantation Group and occupy a comparable situation. Most have been damaged by ploughing, and some have been totally levelled and are visible only on air photographs (58/RAF/3250: 0086; N.M.R., SU 0015/1/327; C.U.A.P., ANC 37). … (34) Bowl (00801513), some 70 yds N. of the Cursus, on the boundary with Gussage St. Michael, has been pared by ploughing on either side; former diam. 75 ft., ht. 5ft.'

<4> French, C A I, Lewis, H A, Allen, M J, Scaife. R G, GSB Prospection and Gardiner, J, 1998, Summary Report on the 1998 Assessment of Excavations of Barrow 34 and 41, Chalkpit Field, Down Farm, Gussage St Michael, Dorset (Monograph). SDO14246.

<5> National Record of the Historic Environment, 213589 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

May 30 2022 3:44PM