Monument record MDO3025 - Pond Barrow, one of the Culliford Tree Group, Winterborne Came

A Bronze Age pond 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 23 and by Grinsell as Winterborne Came 24a, it was recorded in 1979 during Ordnance Survey field investigation as a very well preserved pond barrow measuring 38.5 metres in overall diameter. The surrounding bank was up to 1.3 metres high above the interior and an average of 12 metres wide. Traces of an outer ditch, previously noted by RCHME to be circa 20 feet wide, were extremely vague and indeterminate. <1-3>

<1> Grinsell, L V, 1959, Dorset Barrows, 149, 172 (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.

<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 Barton, J G, Various, Field Investigators Comments JGB, F1 JGB 14-DEC-1979 (Unpublished document).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, SDR 580 (Index). SDO12304.

Overall diameter 38.5m, ht. of bank from inside is 1.3m and average width is 12.0m. Overgrown in deciduous woodland. 1/2/B

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 Wessex Archaeology, 2011, South Dorset Ridgeway Barrow Survey 2010 (Unpublished document).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

<6> National Record of the Historic Environment, 1339076 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Jun 16 2023 3:00PM