Monument record MDO3842 - Bowl barrow in Gore Wood, Fontmell Magna

A Bronze Age ditched bowl barrow. The small barrow mound has possibly been modified by ornamental landscaping and is set within a circular bank with an external ditch. The platform defined by this bank is raised above the level of the ground around the monument. The record for this monument has been enhanced with support from Wessex Water.

A disc barrow 17.1m in diameter. The mound is 3.7m in diameter and 0.2m high and the platform is 9.1m in diameter. The outer bank is 2.0m wide and 0.2m high and the surrounding ditch outside the bank is 2.0m wide and 0.2m deep. <2> Mound, perhaps a barrow. <3> ST 88891820: This feature comprises a small mound, 6.0m in diameter and 0.5m high, eccentrically placed within a circular bank 0.4m high on its inner side and 0.7m on its outer with an overall diameter of 11.5m, the whole surrounded by a ditch 2.0m wide and 0.2m deep mutilated in the south east quarter. Small ornamental trees have at some time been planted around the inner dished rim. There are many old surface diggings in the immediate area and one trench impinges on the south side of the mound. The feature occupies a good barrow situation at the head of a wide combe and in the absence of the surrounding coppice, it would command a magnificent view across the Blackmore Vale. The mound profile does not conform to that typical for a disc barrow, and from visual evidence it may represent a bowl barrow now mutilated by landscaping, or a barrow form which is of local variation and not a readily recognisable type. (The work bears a marked resemblance to a circular mound (ST 83 SW 62) set within the confines of White Sheet Castle (Hill fort) Wilts, 19 kilometres to the north north west). Resurveyed at 1:2500 on AM. <4> Former HER card originally distinguished between the barrow (37A) and the Anglo-Saxon charter reference (37B) (RMAT 12/10/2015)

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