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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Gussage Down (South) Alternative Name: Gussage St Michael 4, Gussage Cow Down SouthCountry: England County: Dorset Type: Long Barrow
Nearest Town: Blandford Forum Nearest Village: Gussage St Michael
Map Ref: ST994136
Latitude: 50.921858N Longitude: 2.009908W
Condition:
| 5 | Perfect |
| 4 | Almost Perfect |
| 3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
| 2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
| 1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
| 0 | No data. |
| -1 | Completely destroyed |
| 5 | Superb |
| 4 | Good |
| 3 | Ordinary |
| 2 | Not Good |
| 1 | Awful |
| 0 | No data. |
| 5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
| 4 | Short walk on a footpath |
| 3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
| 2 | A long walk |
| 1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
| 0 | No data. |
| 5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
| 4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
| 3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
| 2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village |
| 1 | co-ordinates of the nearest town |
| 0 | no data |
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h_fenton visited on 20th Feb 2002 - their rating: Access: 2
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As with many of the long barrows in this region its long axis points SE-NW, with the wider flatter end to the SE. It stands atop the ridge of Gussage Down but would only have been intervisible with the nearby long barrow to the NW. This barrow has a U-shaped ditch (now silted up and ploughed over) with the open end at the NW, pointing towards its similarly sized companion long barrow about 200m further along the ridge (which lay within the banks of the Dorset Cursus).
Access This long barrow stands in an arable field and is surrounded by crops. A bridleway (The Jubilee trail) passes very close by along the ridge of Gussage Down, and makes a T junction with another bridleway coming up Gussage Hill from the hamlet of Gussage St Michael. For details of how to walk to this barrow see the entry for the neighbouring northern barrow.
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