More information : (Centred SU 00751545) Tumulus (NR) Tumuli (NR) (twice) (1)
Wyke Down Group comprises seventeen barrows, including at least one disc barrow and one bell barrow, in a compact cluster on the gentle S. slope of the down, about 250 ft. above O.D. (Plate 48). All have been damaged by ploughing, most of them severely, and some are visibleonly on air photographs (58/RAF/3250: 0086; C.U.A.P., NK 4, YN 28; N.M.R., 9609/1; SU/0015/1/327).
(41) Bowl (00731529), on the boundary with Gussage St. Michael, has been damaged by ploughing on two sides; former diam. 75 ft., ht. 2 1/2 ft. (1-3)
The other 16 barrows in this group, formerly described here, have now been recorded individually. See associated monument records for details. This record now deals specifically with RCHME's Gussage All Saints 41 (Grinsell's Gussage All Saints 10), and more generally with the barrow group as a whole. The barrow itself lies onthe boundary with Gussage St Michael. The southernmost barrow in the Wyke Down group (although Grinsell does does not include it in the group), it is also the closest to the Dorset Cursus (Linear 41), which lies a little over 200 metres to the south. (2-3)
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