Monument record MDO5560 - Bowl barrow, immediately north of the Dorset Cursus, one of The Cursus Group of round barrows, Gussage All Saints

Bowl barrow immediately north of the Cursus, in 1975 this monument was reported as having been damaged by ploughing, but formerly measuring 95 feet in diameter with a mound about eight feet high.

A bowl barrow located immediately north of the Dorset Cursus (Linear 41), listed by RCHME as Gussage All Saints 36 and by Grinsell as Gussage All Saints 3. It was described by RCHME as a mound damaged by ploughing, and formerly measuring 95 feet in diameter and 8 feet high. This barrow was formerly described as part of SU 01 NW 72. That record should be consulted for additional sources and information. <1-2>

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

<2> 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. …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). … (36) Bowl (00921519), immediately N. of the Cursus, has been damaged by ploughing; former diam. 95 ft., ht. 8ft.'

<3> National Record of the Historic Environment, 1314709 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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