Monument record MDO3022 - Bell Barrow, one of the Culliford Tree Group, Winterborne Came

Overgrown barrow, damaged by badgers. Ordnance Survey field investigation in 1979 recorded it as a mound 49 metres in diameter and 3.8 metres high, surrounded by a berm 2 to 3 metres wide and an outer ditch 5 metres wide and 0.3 metres deep. Flint flakes picked up from surface of barrow in 1983.

Bell barrow about 93 feet diameter by 12 feet high, with ditch about 8 feet from the base of the mound. <1> <3>

SY 69578549 Bell barrow of overall diameter 49.0m and height 3.8m, with a berm 2.0m to 3.0m wide. The silted up outer ditch is 5.0m wide and 0.3m deep. The barrow has been extensively mutilated by badger setts, and it is overgrown by trees. Re-surveyed at 1:2500 on MSD. <4>

<1> Grinsell, L V, 1959, Dorset Barrows, 166 (Monograph). SDO132.

<2> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1963 (Map). SWX1540.

(SY 69578548) Tumulus (NR)

<3> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume II (South East) Part 3, 458 (Monograph). SDO150.

'(20) Bell (?) (69578548). Diam. about 93 ft., ht. about 12 ft., with ditch about 8 ft. from base of mound. '

<4> Barton, J G, Various, Field Investigators Comments JGB, F1 JGB 14-DEC-79 (Unpublished document). SDO11900.

<5> Papworth, M, 1983, The South Dorset Ridgeway Project: condition and management survey, SDR 577 (Index). SDO12304.

Overall diameter 49.0m and ht. 3.8m with a berm of 2.0m-3.0m wide. The silted up outer ditch is 5.0m wide and 0.3m deep. The barrow has been extensively mutilated by badger setts and is overgrown by trees. 1/2/D

<6> Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, 1985, Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society for 1984, 111 (Serial). SDO84.

‘ROUND BARROWS IN CAME WOOD, WINTERBORNE CAME. Students of the Dorset Institute of Higher Education found two flint flakes and one chert flake brought to the surface by burrowing animals in the round barrows at SY 69688545 (RCHM Group R11, no.21) and 69578548 (R11, no. 20), in the Culliford Tree Group (RCHM 1970, 458). The flakes were examined by Peter Woodward; none of them was diagnostic. They are deposited in the County Museum.’

<7> Wessex Archaeology, 2011, South Dorset Ridgeway Barrow Survey 2010 (Unpublished document). SDO12407.

<8> National Record of the Historic Environment, 452202 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Jun 16 2023 2:34PM