Monument record MDO3024 - Bowl Barrow, one of the Culliford Tree Group, Winterborne Came

A Bronze Age bowl barrow, part of the Culliford Tree barrow group, a linear group of barrows ranged along part of the Dorset Ridgeway. Listed by RCHME as Winterborne Came 22 and by Grinsell as Winterborne Came 24, it was recorded in 1979 during Ordnance Survey field investigation as a bowl barrow 21 metres in diameter and 1 metre high, in poor condition and with no visible surrounding ditch. <1-3>

<1> Grinsell, L V, 1959, Dorset Barrows, 149 (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.

'(22) Bowl (?) (69738545) 53 yds. E. of (21). Diam. about 70 ft., ht. about 1½ ft. '

<3> Barton, J G, Various, Field Investigators Comments JGB, F1 JGB 14-DEC-1979 (Unpublished document). SDO11900.

<4> Papworth, M, 1983, The South Dorset Ridgeway Project: condition and management survey, SDR579 (Index). SDO12304.

<5> Wessex Archaeology, 2011, South Dorset Ridgeway Barrow Survey 2010 (Unpublished document). SDO12407.

Diameter 21.0m, ht. 1.0m. In poor condition with an uneven surface. Covered by young beech trees. 1/3/C

<6> National Record of the Historic Environment, 1339065 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Jun 16 2023 2:56PM