Monument record MDO2957 - Bowl barrow, one of the Culliford Tree Group, Whitcombe

Site of a Bronze Age bowl barrow, part of a wider linear barrow cemetery. In 1970 this monument was reported as being around 75 feet in diameter with a mound about 12½ feet high, having been much reduced by ploughing. Soil marks indicated an original diameter of around 90 feet, with an encircling ditch about 17 feet wide.

A Bronze Age bowl barrow, part of the Culliford Tree barrow group, a linear group of barrows ranged along part of the Dorset Ridgeway (see associated monuments). Listed by RCHME as Whitcombe 16 and by Grinsell as Whitcombe 6, it was described by the Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division in 1979 as a mound 22.5 metres in diameter and 3.2 metres high, with no visible trace of the surrounding ditch surviving. Previously, RCHME had noted a ditch some 17 feet wide. <1-3>

Site of a Bronze Age bowl barrow, part of a wider linear barrow cemetery. <7-8>

<1> Grinsell, L V, 1959, Dorset Barrows, 143 (Monograph). SDO132.

<2> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume II (South East) Part 3, 459 (Monograph). SDO150.

'(16) Ditched bowl (70158537) immediately E. of (15). Diam. now 75 ft., but formerly about 90 ft., ht. 12½ ft., with ditch about 17 ft. wide.'

<3> Barton, J G, Various, Field Investigators Comments JGB, F1 JGB 16-NOV-1979 (Unpublished document). SDO11900.

<4> Papworth, M, 1983, The South Dorset Ridgeway Project: condition and management survey, SDR 596 (Index). SDO12304.

Bowl, diameter 22.5m, ht. 3.2m. Overgrown. Damaged by basal ploughing and overgrown with hawthorn. 1/2/C

<5> McOmish, D and Tuck, C, 2001, Broadmayne Bank Barrow, Dorset (Unpublished document). SDO16432.

<6> Wessex Archaeology, 2011, South Dorset Ridgeway Barrow Survey 2010 (Unpublished document). SDO12407.

<7> 22-APR-1954, NMR SY 7085/6-10 (Aerial Photograph). SDO10766.

<8> Royal Air Force, 04-NOV-1946, RAF/CPE/UK/1824 3284-6 (Aerial Photograph). SDO10765.

<9> National Record of the Historic Environment, 1338121 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Jan 16 2025 7:10PM